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    1. Little evidence exists to argue for or against the role of smartphones during school emergencies.

      This shows both sides to the story. Phones can be distracting but may provide comfort and communication during emergencies. When designing policies, schools should explicitly address emergency protocols.

    2. smartphones have served as important “third spaces” for tweens, teens, and young adults to find social connection

      Third space: social places outside home and school This explains the resistance to bands, some students social lives exist on their phone.

    3. For example, young people with greater media multitasking behaviors demonstrate lower test scores and poorer working memory capacity

      Multitasking: switching between tasks Working Memory: short-term memory needed for problem solving This can be costly especially for ELLs because language processing already takes up enough working memory. Best to teach single task strategies.

    4. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of high school teachers, a third of middle school teachers, and even 6% of elementary school teachers say that ”students being distracted by their cellphones in the classroom is a major problem”

      I thought this would have been higher especially for high school and middle school.

    1. impersonal prose

      a writing style that is objective, formal, and detached, focusing on facts, analysis, and broader perspectives rather than the author's personal feelings or experiences.

    2. Content may consist of examples, statistics, facts, anecdotes, testimonies, and observations, but no matter the type, the information must be appropriate and interesting for the audience and purpose.

      The target audience plays a big role in how you write, but no matter who you're writing for it must be engaging and interesting for the reader. No one wants to read a boring article or essay.

    3. If you want to brag about a good grade, you may write the post to please family members. If you want to describe a funny moment, you may write with your friends’ senses of humor in mind. Even at work, you send e-mails with an awareness of an unintended receiver who could intercept the message.

      Depending on the target audience, the tone of your message will be different. Learning to write professionally and persuasively will help in any job field desirable.

    4. A series of sentences of the same length and type tends to become hypnotic

      Reading and writing repetitive sentences can often confuse readers

    1. How are kids forming a relationship with these AIs, what does that look like, and how might that impact the ability of AIs to teach?”

      There are so many apps students can use on their tablets and phones outside of school that can really impact their lives. Forming relationships with computer generated tools can potentially cause a struggle with their social skills in school.

    2. They are also exploring whether educators can leverage tools such as ChatGPT without hindering the broader goals of learning.

      We need to remember that it's a tool for us to use and not a solution.

    3. AI has been used in classrooms for years, quietly powering learning management tools, such as Google Classroom, Canvas, and Turnitin.

      Like I said, there are many useful tools that AI can generate. In my classroom, we use Google Classroom all the time and it is very helpful!

    4. “Teachers are facing a room full of people who are very much at the cutting edge of a technology.”

      Should we use it to make workload easier for teachers, or should we avoid it to ensure the work is authentic and human-made?

    1. Out of all the hundreds of books I've read, I can say with confidence that I really wouldn't be thesame person I am today without J.K. Rowling.

      This makes remember the memories of reading Harry Potter when I was a kid. Pasqualin connects his identity to a well known author, making his claim relatable to many readers that grew up reading Harry Potter.

    2. study. Iremember she would set up these wild games involving crazy chases through the house just tomatch a picture to the correct spelling of a wo

      This reminds me of when I was younger and my parents would help me learn new things by playing card games they bought from a learning store.

    3. story, the over three hundred-page Sorcerer’s Stonewas teased and spoon-fed to me in bite-sized piec

      This phrase makes me think that she was too young to understand the book so her sister had to break it down for her to make it easier for her to understand.

    4. By the time I was in the first grade, I was lugging around books that were almost too heavyfor me to lift

      This also shows how important books were to her at a very young age.

    5. White bleached walls—that was the first thing I saw as I stepped into my room.

      I like how Pasqualin sets up the scene in a way to help the reader picture his memory. This shows how sensory details can make literary narrative more engaging.

    6. know how to spot a customer who has needs you can fill

      this is about recognizing the opportunities you could have, and being able to tell who actually needs help vs who's just looking.

    7. host of definitions, protocols,and norms I had to learn.

      This shows how much stuff there is to learn for even the most simple jobbed how much knowledge you have to retain.

    1. To preserve a language is thus to preserve a cultural history. But in the digital age especially, it takesconstant vigilance to yank a minority language out of its downward trajectory.

      although it is hard to comeback from a dying language, it may not be impossible with the help of AI and language models.

    1. Cette « planète », au cœur de la galaxie francophone

      I think the author means that the variety of cultures and cultures and peoples that speak French globally is much like a constellation or galaxy in both vastness and diversity.

    2. Évolution de la population de cinq espaces linguistiques définis selon la langue officielle
      1. The graph is looking at the evolution across 5 linguistic groups (French, Spanish, Germanic, and Arabic) for the amount of those who it is their official language. The y-axis denotes number of people in millions, while the x-axis denotes years from 1965 to projected values of 1965. these later values display French as exponentially growing while other language plateua or steadily rise at a slower rate.
    3. Combien de francophones dans le monde ?

      I think the text will be informative as the main focus is delivering statistics relating to French-speaking in a global context. The voice seems to be very objective with an overarching goal of calling attention to the vast variety of French speakers internationally.

    4. langue sociale, quand elle permet de communiquer entre concitoyens de langues maternelles différentes ;

      french is used as a language to bridge the gap between speakers who have different native languages; they can speak french to communicate socially if they dont share the same native language since its so widespread

    5. Cette « planète », au cœur de la galaxie francophone, rassemble des peuples issus de tous les continents et de toutes les cultures, mais sa composante principale et croissante se situe en Afrique.

      french connects a lot of cultures and peoples, with the biggest developments happening in afria

    6. sa présence dans l’environnement sonore et visuel des populations, la fréquence de son emploi, sont très variables selon les régions, voire selon les pays observés

      the language is used differently depending on where you observe the speakers; varies by regional usage and also dialectically

    1. “I think of what is gone, and remember your companions, who are dead. Never was lady of my peerage, however fair and good and gracious, ever loved by four such valiant gentlemen, nor ever lost them in one single day. Save you—who were so maimed and in such peril—all are gone. Therefore I call to mind those who loved me so dearly, and am the saddest lady beneath the sun. To remember these things, of you four I shall make a Lay, and will call it the Lay of the Four Sorrows.”

      In this line, the author gives fair. Good and gracious almost an existence besides being a word. She names all of them the Four Sorrows which makes the reader feel a little glum. Also referring to herself as the saddest lady pretty much ever really drives how devastated she is. She is using simile to be more dramatic She could have said, "I am very sad" but instead the author chose to use this wording as it is way more creative and captures the reader attention more.

    1. A Study of the Cost of CareProvided in Physician-Owned HospitalsCompared to Traditional HospitalsAnalysis of 20 High-Cost Diagnostic RelatedGroups Using 2019 Medicare Claims DataRobert H. Aseltine Jr., PhDDirector, Center for Population HealthUConn HealthConsultant to the Physicians AdvocacyInstitute and The Physicians FoundationGregory J. Matthews, PhDDirector, Center for Data Science and ConsultingLoyola University ChicagoConsultant to the Physicians AdvocacyInstitute and The Physicians Foundation

      cost of care analysis from physician owned hospitals

    1. same logic that drove colonialexpansion across the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The Dutch in Indonesia. The French in WestAfrica. The Belgians in the Congo. The British everywhere else
    2. Companies behaving like empires,treating the digital world as unclaimed territory, free to plunder. No permission, no license, no payment.Just the assumption that anything online is theirs for the taking

      reminds me of the lawyer quote.

    3. The self-proclaimed futurists of the world, standingshoulder to shoulder with a man who represented its unraveling.

      This picture represents the big tech companies who back a president who is ruining the use of their products

    4. The empires of the 21st century don’t need the Dutch East Company, or soldiers, or muskets, orsmallpox. They operate through code, unfair contracts and VC prospectus. Where European powersonce laid claim to land, labour and resources, AI companies now lay claim to language, culture andmemory

      This analogy kind of reminds me of the analogy used in O'Neil's piece that companies view AI as an arms race, and I feel like the competition between companies with no regard for the consequences is reflected here

    1. “I would go to academic conferences in AI, and I would see four or fiveBlack people out of five, six, seven thousand people internationally

      The lack of diversity in colleagues working on AI reflects in the responses AI gives.

    2. If you feed a machine’s learning system bad or biased data— or if you’ve got a monolithic team building the software — it’s bound to churn out skewedresults.

      Skewed data equals skewed results

    3. Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, Chowdhury’s team waseliminated.

      This is interesting for two reasons. The removal of an ethics team as well as the fact that I thought Meta was Elon's invention, but it was already in the works when he got there. (Not saying he didn't have significant impact on how Meta functions on twitter.)

    4. I believe that thepossibility that digital intelligence will become much smarter than humans and will replace usas the apex intelligence is a more serious threat to humanity than bias and discrimination,even though bias and discrimination are happening now and need to be confrontedurgently

      The confusion I feel about this statement...is immense

    5. Of course, nobody wants thesethings to take over. But the impact on real people, the exacerbation of racism and sexism?That is an existential concern

      I agree.

    6. colleagues he knows well and trustshad conflicting views on the matter.

      I know this is never going to happen (and might violate some people's privacy) but a thorough (publicly available) investigation and discussion of Gebru's firing would be interesting.

    7. training the semantic webtechnology they were working on

      Wow so they really have been working on advanced tech like this for years. AI felt like it came out of nowhere.

    8. Google suddenly worrying about ethics? Its subsidiaryYouTube was the slowest of the major platforms to take action against extremist content. “Iwas suspicious.

      Great point but the call out on google and youtube is so funny.

    9. criminal sentencing and policing

      Connects to one of my earlier annotations. I really wonder if the validity of these systems have really been called into question.

    10. reporting that darker-skinned females are the most likely to be misclassified,with error rates up to 34.7 percent. The error rate for white men: 0.8 percent

      This makes me think of how facial recognition software is used in police dramas on TV. Do cops/detectives/federal agencies actually use facial recognition to find/identify/convict criminals? If they do, does this concern of misclassification also apply to that field?

    11. with often didn’t pick upon her dark-skinned face.

      Reminds me of the issue that apple facial recognition had with people of Asian, specifically East Asian, descent. I recall seeing a video where a women got her friend to unlock her IPhone using the facial recognition tech, even though they looked fairly different.

    12. will wipe out the jobs of some marginalized communities

      The conversation about wiping out jobs, is one that I have seen, but I would love to look into the specifics of how it affects marginalized groups.

    13. Content moderators in Kenya have reported experiencing severe trauma, anxiety,and depression from watching videos of child sexual abuse, murders, rapes, and suicide

      I think I recently saw a trailer for a horror/thriller movie that is set in the premise of a women in the US starting a job as a content moderator and, feeling traumatized yes but also going out of her way to track down the people hurt in the content and the people posting the content. I have been aware of content moderation and things being reported or tagged but never about the people who have to do that moderation.

    14. How would that risk have changed if we’d listened to Gebru? What if we had heard thevoices of the women like her who’ve been waving the flag about AI and machine learning

      Seems like the thesis (?) of the article.

    15. As AI has exploded into the public consciousness, the men who created them have criedcrisis

      The regret is crazy. They spent years working on it, with people warning them, and now they're worried.

    16. that they’re tested on those without thechoice to opt out;

      good point; everything established on public domain is up for AI "grabs", the user does not get to contextualize or opt-out of their contribution to AI's "knowledge" forum

    17. If we filter out the discourse of marginalized populations, we fail to provide training data thatreclaims slurs and otherwise describes marginalized identities in a positive light,

      filtering out negative perceptions of marginalized groups may create erasure

    1. clay or lime plaster, and open-air patios. Second stories were also constructed,

      This is wrong, Gener Basallote et al's article says the exact opposite.

    1. Yet the tibial sesamoid sup-ports no new digit, and its increased size confers no advan-tage, so far as we know.

      The panda species took the radial seasmoid mutation to their advantage, while the tibial sesamoid mutation was not advantageous to them, so it never turned into a "thumb".

    2. It is constructed from a bone called the radial sesamoid,normally a small component of the wrist. In pandas, theradial sesamoid is greatly enlarged and elongated

      Pandas must have evolved from having 4 fingers to having 5 when pandas with longer/larger radial sesamoids survived and reproduced while those with shorter/smaller radial sesamoids were less able to consume bamboo and thrive.

    3. I had learned that a dexterous, opposablethumb stood among the hallmarks of human success.

      I wonder if having an opposable thumb is a sign of LACK OF struggle, because pandas and humans are both lacking predators and any real struggle for existence.

    4. paths that a sensible God

      He also keeps randomly bringing up theological arguments for some reason, I wonder if this is a regular 'scientific' topic of the time?

    5. Orchids were notmade by an ideal engineer

      The idea that natural selection is not 'engineered' keeps appearing, Gould is trying to emphasize the imperfect nature of natural selection.

    6. They have evolved an astonishing variety of"contrivances" to attract insects, guarantee that sticky pol-len adheres to their visitor, and ensure that the attachedpollen comes in contact with female parts of the next orchidvisited by the insect.

      While not necessarily caused by variation in heredity, orchids have found a mechanism to combat the struggle for existence, otherwise they would have likely gone extinct as a species.

    1. That resentment is “starting to ease down” now, she said. “More students are willing to give up their phones and not get distracted.”

      I feel this is the best sentence in this article

    1. But thesurface of a wheel as large as a humanfoot could not provision the wheelfulof organic matter within.

      Since it is advantageous for the bacterium to have wheel-like features, they have evolved to use them. However, humans have no use for a wheel-like body part and would ultimately be less efficient with one; so while rotating wheels seem modern and efficient, they aren't in the case of large creatures.

    2. the bacterialflagellum operates as a wheel. It ro-tates rigidly like a propeller, drivenby a rotatory “motor” in the basalportion embedded in the cell wall.Moreover, the motor is reversible.

      All modern technologies have parallels found in nature, even if they were discovered afterwards, like in this case.

    3. Mostmodels assumed that flagella are fixedrigidly to the cell wall and that theypropel bacteria by waving to and fro.

      This was actually the impression I had from my high school biology class!

    4. But animals cannotconstruct wheels from the parts thatnature provides.

      Gould is saying that natural selection has its limits and is not a perfect science.

    5. henotion that God's existence can beproved by the harmonies of natureand the clever construction of organ-isms

      We are reading texts with this exact argument in my Problem of God class right now!

    6. adaptation, be it biological orcultural, represents a better fit to spcific, local environments, not anevitable stage in a ladder of progress.

      The main point of this sentence is very interesting-- evolution is not a linear path that creates 'better and better' species, rather, evolution can go in many directions based on the specific environment and location.

    7. The Romanroads had begun to deteriorate andcamels were not bound to them.Craftsmanship in harnesses and wag-ons had suffered a sharp decline.

      There are examples of changes in environment that made the shape and function of wheels less advantageous.

    1. anguage userswill have higher scores in ‘Negative Emotionality’ whiletaking the personality test in their first (Slavic) languagecompared to their scores in English.

      I think this hypothesis with be true.

    2. When learners begin to thinkin a second language, they are not merely translatingtheir thoughts but are instead adopting the cognitiveframeworks and cultural contexts embedded

      This is an interesting point of veiw.

    3. The results showed that on average, the participantsscored 0.02 higher on Negative Emotionality while takingthe personality test in English, compared to their firstSlavic language, the mean scores being 3.19 and 3.17,respectively. Since it was assumed that the participantswould score higher on Negative Emotionality in their firstSlavic language and the results showed the opposite, theydid not provide evidence to support the hypothesis

      I wonder if this is a result of anxiety or impatience while speaking the second language (English) or a result of the cultural values and implications woven into the language and its structure.

    4. Considering all languagesand cultures have vastly different experiences regardingpersonality and knowledge of the language, we thought itwas a needed addition to the field of linguistics

      A fun anecdote - I spent several months in South Korea and noticed the cultural factors of the Korean language changing my behavior when I spoke it. I often would get home and think "Why was I acting so reserved? I didn't feel anxious." I attribute this to the much less individualistic culture in Korea compared to the hyper-individualistic culture of America, which is absolutely ingrained into the fabric of both languages.

    5. n contrast,those learned later in life may rely to a greater degree ondeclarative memory and thus produce weak responsesand a feeling of detachment,

      Is there a difference in the personality score between those who learned their second language later in life versus those who grew up with both?

    6. . The study finds that when peopledescribe their personalities in languages other than theirnative ones, they often use words that suggest they feelfake, artificial, or like they’re putting on an act

      Is this due to the feeling that the speaker cannot find the adequate word or a form of imposter syndrome via simply not feeling confident with the language?

    7. people are likely to displaydifferent personality traits depending on the languagethey are speaking - their L1 or L2. Bilingual individuals oftenreport feeling or behaving differently when speaking intheir L1 compared to their L2

      This is the anecdotal evidence I have experienced and heard from. I am curious how those who report this phenomenon occurring for themselves compare to those who do not? Do they test higher?

    8. this difference was not statisticallysignificant (p = 0.355). Interestingly, scores for Extraversion and Open-Mindedness were significantly higher in L1, suggestingthat personality expression may vary depending on the language of use, potentially influenced by cultural and cognitivefactors.

      Findings of the test

    9. Our mainfocus was on Negative Emotionality, encompassing Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Volatility, and we predicted thatparticipants would score higher on it when taking the personality test in their L

      The focus (what is being tested) and main prediction

    10. This study explores the impact of language on personality traits among Slavic first-language (L1) speakers using Englishas a second language

      Main idea being tested in this article

    1. In addition, the application of UDLserves as the basis and foundation for makingeducational learning accessible and responsive tothe special needs of students.

      I think this is a fantastic way to sum it up

    2. ince numerous educators are unfamiliarwith the teaching approach in inclusive education(Zagona et al., 2017), professional training is a mustto choose the best pedagogies

      Sometimes getting teachers to go away from their old habits can be difficult.

    1. rticle, “Is Homework Making Your Child Sick?”, covered the issue of extreme pressure placed on children of the affluent.

      I agree that specifically in the older students who are trying to juggle school, sports, jobs, and social lives it can creating more stress.

    2. “Kids from wealthier homes are more likely to have resources such as computers, internet connections, dedicated areas to do schoolwork and parents who tend to be more educated and more available to help them with tricky assignments. Kids from disadvantaged homes are more likely to work at afterschool jobs, or to be home without supervision in the evenings while their parents work multiple jobs.”

      I think this is a very accurate statement that tends to go over looked.

    3. homework in grade school may actually have great benefits, especially with regard to educational equity.

      I know every kid in school has been thinking this since the beginning of their schooling, so i'm glad they have actually researched it.

    1. Instead, when someone is asked sincere, reflective questions, they sometimes begin to ask themselves those questions. And sometimes, over the years, they find their way into different answers.

      When people are asked the same question over and over, they tend to lose their judgement in their answer.

    1. Mr. Schwartz, who has practiced law in New York for 30 years, said in a declaration filed with the judge this week that he had learned about ChatGPT from his college-aged children and from articles, but that he had never used it professionally.

      They should start relying on more reliable information than some AI since some people don't use AI the right way which leads into them having more problems.

    2. He repeatedly tried to explain why he did not conduct further research into the cases that ChatGPT had provided to him.

      He gambled his creditability with a AI suggesting that even A powerful Lawyer didn't look further.

    3. After Avianca’s lawyers could not locate the cases, Judge Castel ordered Mr. Mata’s lawyers to provide copies. They submitted a compendium of decisions.It turned out the cases were not real.

      this fact tells us that Artificial intelligence isn't trustworthy

    1. Is Nara-da’s life as Sushila real, or is it an illusion?

      I think it is an illusion because Narada cannot return back to the life she lived in the illusion and continue it. This is the same as dreams because you cannot fall back asleep and continue the dream you had from the night before. However, this idea only works for illusions/dreams and not for virtual reality.

    2. On one interpretation, Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream raises a ques-tion about knowledge: How do any of us know we aren’t dreamingright now? This is a cousin of the question raised in the introduction:How do any of us know we aren’t in a virtual world right now? Thesequestions lead to a more basic question: How do we know anythingwe experience is real?

      This reminds me of the conversation we had in class. When you are dreaming, you don't feel what you are doing in your dream. If you are flying in your dream, you can't feel the air moving past you or if you are touching something, you can't actually feel it. Same with smell, you can't smell something in your dream. That is how you know you are dreaming because all of those things can only happen in real life. Same with virtual reality. Picking things up in virtual reality is just the task of moving your hand, not actually picking something up and moving it.

    3. Each virtual world is a new reality: Reality+.Augmented reality involves additions to reality: Reality+. Some virtualworlds are as good as or better than ordinary reality: Reality+. If we’rein a simulation, there is more to reality than we thought: Reality+. Therewill be a smorgasbord of multiple realities: Reality+.

      This point confuses me. At what point is the number of realities someone is a part of too many? As someone gathers more "realities" the importance of each one diminishes. This makes the fact that it's a reality almost irrelevant. I don't see how having multiple realities can even constitute them as realities because they can all be so different.

    1. Depending on the teacher’s interpretation, she might believe that she should not report the student for cheating because it would impact his grade point average and cause more stress for his mother.

      That is the difficult thing because when a teacher creates a bond with her students, she will feel bad reporting him for cheating because they can see the negative effects that'll escalate. However, if they disregard what they did, then they will continue to do so because they never knew that they needed to face consequences for their actions. Then in the long run there will be more harm than good.

    2. The educator strives to help each student realize his or her potential as a worthy and effective member of society.

      Teachers often have to do this for their students because some students don't have people seeing their potential at home. You have to be their role model and show them that they are worthy and their education is important.

    3. In determining whether or not to incorporate the text, the teacher must ask himself if he is truly presenting different points of view.

      It is fascinating that as an educator there are so many things you have to consider. When considering adding a book that you believe would benefit your students, you must evaluate whether it represents multiple points of view rather than just one perspective.

    4. It is a framework that a teacher can use to help make decisions about what is right or wrong in a given situation.

      Just because that is the framework that has been given to teachers does not mean that it is right or wrong. A teacher can't make up their own opinion because it is already given to them, and that isn't necessarily the best way to teach in a classroom just what is already chosen for them.

    5. impacts the functioning of the school, the well-being of the students, and the personal goals of the teacher in pursuit of the profession of teaching and supporting student learning.

      There is a lot that goes into deciding whether the book is appropriate or not. There’s a lot of factors that into play in making the decision.

    1. but she doubts the accuracy of this diagnosis.

      Sometimes people just thinking if they just tired instead of sick. I am so glad that she is getting better after she attend to the DBT group.

    2. why do you believe a personality disorder is primary, rather than a major depressive disorder?

      This is very important; it is letting people know that what is happening with the patient and how to do the therapy.

    3. This is typically the evaluation of an individual, although you can extend the concept of case conceptualization to summarizing findings about a group or organization.

      This can be understood as the introduction to diagnosis and treatment.

    1. “Our students are coming into school every day with greater needs in every aspect of their lives, including around their mental health. But the support just isn’t there to help teachers and staff,” said Bissegger.

      I found this very interesting because this is why educators need their admin to support them. If they are expected to juggle all the different parts of teaching then the support has got to be there. In many other articles I have read, I have heard that teachers feel unsupported and it begins to be a lot. It is okay that students come into school every day with greater needs, but if we need to help them, then someone has to help us.

    2. Teaching has become mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting,”

      This is one of the best sentences, it sums up the article pretty well. It says a lot with few words, and then there are several following sentences that back up the quote. Love it.

    3. “more and more has been asked of us. it doesn't seem to stop.”

      The demands every single day that are asked of teachers can lead to burnout. Also, having a staff that does not support you and your goals can be a factor as well.

    4. Many school districts are still struggling with staff shortages and more educators are feeling burned out and demoralized.

      We have seen this issue occur year after year. If this keeps repeatedly happening, should we look into the deeper issue of why this may be happening? Rather than ignoring the problems in the school districts around the world. Just a thought.

    1. Because an equilibrium state is achieved when the forward reaction rate equals the reverse reaction rate, under a given set of conditions there must be a relationship between the composition of the system at equilibrium and the kinetics of a reaction (represented by rate constants). We can show this relationship using the decomposition reaction of N2O4N2O4\ce{N_2O_4} to NO2NO2\ce{NO2}. Both the forward and reverse reactions for this system consist of a single elementary reaction, so the reaction rates are as follows:

      does this mean the relationship between the forward reaction and reverse are directly related to the k constants? or do we need to find the k constant first?

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    1. Both bind to bacteria, viruses, mycobacteria, and fungi, and enhance phagocytosis and the release of mediators of the immune response by macrophages

      surfactant A&D = innate immunity; tag pathogens for phagocytosis, enhance release of cytokines by macrophages surfactant B = helps arrange phospholipids into lamellar bodies; assist entry of phospholipids into surgace monolayer as alveolar expand during inspiration

    1. The rate of dimerization of NO2NO2\ce{NO_2} (reverse reaction) decreases rapidly with time, as expected for a second-order reaction. Because the initial concentration of N2O4N2O4\ce{N_2O_4} is zero, the rate of the dissociation reaction (forward reaction) at t=0t=0t = 0 is also zero. As the dimerization reaction proceeds, the N2O4N2O4\ce{N_2O_4} concentration increases, and its rate of dissociation also increases. Eventually the rates of the two reactions are equal: chemical equilibrium has been reached, and the concentrations of N2O4N2O4\ce{N_2O_4} and NO2NO2\ce{NO_2} no longer change.

      I'm having a hard time understanding what this means. I thought being on equilibrium meant that both reaction had the same reaction rate regardless is the reaction was forward or backwards. so my question is will the reverse reaction will always be faster than the forward and if so how are these equation at equilibrium when they are happening at different rates. does equilibrium has to be at a particular time or position?

    1. the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

      Both of the paths he is to choose look the same. He looks down both paths to try and see if one would persuade his choice more but, they are both just as "worn".

    2. I shall be telling this with a sigh

      The sigh could be interpreted in different ways. He could be sighing in regret of his decision. Maybe he is sighing because he is just relieved with his choice, or maybe it is a sigh of the belief that there is hope in the choice he made.

    1. I gave her, on parting 24 sous. She burst into tears of a gratitude which I could perceive was unfeigned, because she was unable to utter a word.

      I find it uplifting to see Thomas Jefferson hear this woman out on her problem and help her. It wasn't a permanent solution, but it was still a heavily appreciated by the woman.

    2. I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind

      I find this interesting, because Jefferson is saying that dividing the property equally between everyone wouldn't work. He also is saying that there is a lot of misery being brought to the people because of this inequality. He knows that there is an issue here, but there is no clear solution.

    3. . Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

      Is this the beginning of taxing people based on income? the more land people own the more taxes that they pay and the less they own they pay little to no taxes?

    1. A mosaic plot is a visualization technique suitable for contingency tables that resembles a standardized stacked bar plot with the benefit that we still see the relative group sizes of the primary variable as well.

      ,

    2. is helpful if the primary variable in the stacked bar plot is relatively imbalanced, e.g., the category has only a third of the observations in the category, making the simple stacked bar plot less useful for checking for an association. The major downside of the standardized version is that we lose all sense of how many cases each of the bars represent

      d

    3. The stacked bar plot is most useful when it’s reasonable to assign one variable as the explanatory variable (here homeownership) and the other variable as the response (here application_type) since we are effectively grouping by one variable first and then breaking it down by the others.

      k

    4. It is difficult to say, based on this plot alone, how different application types vary across the levels of homeownership. Figure 4.2 (b) is a standardized bar plot
    5. We can display the distributions of two categorical variables on a bar plot concurrently. Such plots are generally useful for visualizing the relationship between two categorical variables. Figure 4.2 shows three such plots that visualize Figure 4.2 (a) is a stacked bar plot.

      c

    6. The row totals provide the total counts across each row and the column totals down each column. We can also create a table that shows only the overall percentages or proportions for each combination of categories, or we can create a table for a single variable

      c

    7. A table that summarizes data for two categorical variables in this way is called a contingency table. Each value in the table represents the number of times a particular combination of variable outcomes occurre

      c

    1. The more definite the concepts, the relations, andthe principles of science, philosophy, and educationbecome, the clearer and more stable the order ofthe sciences and studies in relation to learning andto life; and so the scientific and educational consen-sus becomes more dominant and more permanent

      okay, so Bliss definitely thinks very highly of science; he regards it well over the idea of culture and communit,y I believe? I

    2. “Topics should be collo-cated and placed in classes not according to the whim ofthe person who devises the classification system, but ac-cording to the standards set by scientists and educators”

      Kind of a hostile take - and "scientists and educators"? Why only these groups. Is it to make it easier for them since they're the ones teaching the subjects? It's an understandable want but also seems like it leaves out other important groups.

    1. Some people like to outline, some people like to create idea maps, and some people like to write all their ideas down and organize later.

      Not everyone learns the same way.

    1. Of all the wonderful things thathappened to me last year, that was the mostwonderful.12 Fellini: an Italian movie director13 Chicano: Mexican-American14 horizontally: laying down

      this little sentence made think how wow all she wanted was for her dad approval on something she written and that made whole year I think as a society we need to realize the impact on how much are fathers approval means the world to are doughters no matter how big or small the comment is.

    1. that we listen carefullyto others, including those who disagree with us, and then engagewith them thoughtfully and respectfully—can help us see beyond ourown pet beliefs, which may not be shared by everyone

      to articulate the discussion better

    2. At first, many of ourstudents complain that using templates will take away their originalityand creativity and make them all sound the same

      template or blueprint is for guidance

    3. genuinely listening to views we disagree with canhave the salutary effect of helping us see that beliefs we’d initiallydisdained may not be as thoroughly reprehensible as we’dimagined.

      difference of perspective.

    4. making statements that nobody can possibly disagree with.

      They may not agree but making your statement allows a different perspective thus having the possibility to actually agree.

    5. “it is unfortunate thatdemonstrations are taking place in Birmingham,” yet he hastens toadd that “it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white powerstructure left the Negro community with no alternative.”

      This is still an issue in America today.

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      In description, Herman pushes a lot for bare bone state-what-you-see-and-no-more phrasing. This works as an absolute baseline for worst case scenarios where all that you and the other party have in common are understandings of what a cup and saucer look like and not what a coffee shop looks like. However, a lot of people know what a coffee shop looks like or could look like, and if they knew what an Automat was they could probably connect the two descriptions. Simplified factual descriptions often communicate less than a slightly subjective description could in the event that two parties share some social psyche.

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      I think I realize that what has been irking me about this objectivity section: ultimately, there is still some assumption to be made. Herman makes it out to sound as though observing all available information bears the secret to eliminating biases from assessments, which is just not possible thanks to how deeply rooted biases are in our lives. Even in the examples she offers in this reading, there exists a demand for subjectivity, however little, once we have been as objective as can be.

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      This point, along with many that Herman brings up throughout this reading, really do come off as common sense. We as humans have always known the threat of recklessness, impatience, and a lack of attention towards a scenario. Sloth and Pride, two of the destructive Seven Deadly Sins, cover most of these threats. I guess a reminder is never a bad thing, but some the situations she lists rely on trust to make a fact more than observation.

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      I get what Merkin is saying with this and why she might end up at this conclusion. At the same time, I think this stance magnifies the situation past reality. Plenty of people take photos of art to have for later reference or to use as a wallpaper (as I do). I don't end up "dissociated" from my experience at the museum; if anything, seeing the photos takes me back to the museum and instills much of the original awe back into me.

    1. two sailor songs only, both from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri

      P. Oxy. iii. 1903, no. 425, p. 72. "Sailor's Song"

      "Sailors who skim deep waters, Tritons of the briny waves, and Nilots who sail in happy course upon the smiling waters, tell us, friends, the comparison of the ocean with the fruitful Nile"

      P. Oxy. xi. 1915, no. 1383, p. 236. "Sailor's Song"

      "I used to command the Rhodian winds and the quarters of Ocean, when I wanted to sail, when I wanted to stay there, I used to say to the quarters of Ocean, “Let not the seas be smitten! Subdue the Ocean to the seafarers! Lo, in full strength the wind is rising! Shut up your storm-winds, Night, and make the waters smooth to cross!”

      From the Loeb Classical Library.

    Annotators

    1. It might even make the reader stop and think.

      The line breaks in the poems make it for the readers to think more about what they are reading and not just have it make sense right away.

    1. What covered in, and where?

      There is a lot of uncertainty everywhere in this hymn which seems different from other cultures' creation stories. The bible, for example, describes different things being created in an exact order, one on each day. This Vedas doesn't even mention the seven rivers that we know are integral to the culture of this area today.

    1. Police, security guards, prison wardens, soldiers,deans and administrators, immigration officials, and fathers in theirrole as “the discipline in the family”—these are all traditionallymale roles in the buffer zone designed to keep people in their placein the hierarchy.v

      Male dominate roles that are not just in finance or business but also in some type of service related field.

    2. Social welfare workers, nurses,teachers, counselors, case workers of various sorts, advocates forvarious groups—these occupations, which are found primarily inthe bottom of the pyramid, are performed mostly by women, andare primarily identified as women’s work, taking care of people atthe bottom of the pyramid

      This was mentioned in the other reading as well, it doesn't come to a surprise to me that these careers fall at the bottom of the pyramid.

    Annotators

    1. Formative Assessment Strategies

      I really liked the video about how to aggregate our students' scores. It seems much simpler and easier for a new teacher to do versus other ways that I have seen.