Romeo and Juliet is About You: Finding the Self in Drama

“Romeo and Juliet is About You” is a unit written for the opening work of the spring semester of freshman English, shortly before the STAAR exam. The unit focuses on teaching students to relate to difficult texts and thereby make them more accessible, as well as exploring relationships and their effect on values, choices, and lives. The students will write expository and literary essays, as well as hold Socratic seminars and make use of a number of discussion protocols, to get comfortable with the big ideas of Romeo and Juliet, and the conventions of drama. The culminating project of the unit is a student choice tic-tac-toe board, where each square focuses on plot, theme, or the essential question, and the methods by which the students show their knowledge run the spectrum of student interests, including art, music, and writing

The Story of Periodicity: An Exploration of Sam Kean’s The Disappearing Spoon for Chemistry and English

This unit incorporates knowledge of chemistry and English. Students will read and analyze, write persuasively, and explore the possibilities of storytelling to convey scientific ideas. They explore how the form and function of the periodic table is organized by the form and function of the elements on it, and extrapolate how the table could be continued. Students will design the potential next row of the table, once they have a clear understanding of how the current rows were discovered

Outside Reading [9th-12th grade]

This unit is intended to show students that the reading they do for pleasure involves the same set of thought processes that reading literature academically does. Students will choose novels or narrative nonfiction to read outside class and use these narratives to explore how authors use literary elements to make books enjoyable to read

Market PBL: A Cross-Curricular Exploration of Technological Innovation in Pre-Modern Civilizations

This project-based learning unit incorporates knowledge from history, English, math and science courses. Students explore how geography and available resources, coupled with technological advancements, shape a civilization’s industry and therefore the quality of life of the inhabitants. Students design a product that could be made from the natural resources of their civilization and attempt to sell their product in a simulated market

Thermochemical models and data of layered double hydroxides, a review

DATA AVAILABILITY : Data will be made available on request.Applications and reports of unique properties displayed by layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are steadily increasing. Fundamental insight into LDH synthesis is essential to developing sustainable production processes, and this can be acquired through an improved understanding of their underlying thermochemistry. The collection of work presented introduces LDHs, describes essential terminology, and provides a review of currently available literature focused on modelling methods and measurement techniques used to describe and capture standard thermodynamic formation property data of LDHs. A table of standard thermodynamic formation property data of LDHs is also presented at the end of the review.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cttaChemical EngineeringMaterials Science and Metallurgical Engineerin

Crosstalk Between Innate and T Cell Adaptive Immunity With(in) the Muscle

Growing evidence demonstrates a continuous interaction between the immune system and the skeletal muscle in inflammatory diseases of different pathogenetic origins, in dystrophic conditions such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy as well as during normal muscle regeneration. Although one component of the innate immunity, the macrophage, has been extensively studied both in disease conditions and during cell or gene therapy strategies aiming at restoring muscular functions, much less is known about dendritic cells and their primary immunological targets, the T lymphocytes. This review will focus on the dendritic cells and T lymphocytes (including effector and regulatory T-cells), emphasizing the potential cross talk between these cell types and their influence on the structure and function of skeletal muscle

Bone density and geometry in juvenile racehorses fed differing amounts of minerals

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-64).Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.This study was conducted to further elucidate the mineral requirements of the juvenile horse in training. Horses were fed rations containing differing amounts of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and in reference to mineral intake, groups were designed as low, moderate, moderately high and high. Radiographs of the third metacarpal (MCIII) were taken on day 0, 28, 60, 92 and 124 to evaluate change in bone density and bone geometry. Bone density was expressed as radiographic bone aluminum equivalence (RBAE) and bone geometry was expressed as the width in millimeters (mm) for particular aspects of the bone. Total RBAE increased in all horses during the first sixty days. Change in total RBAE in horses consuming moderately high and high mineral intakes were significantly higher than in horses consuming moderate and low mineral intakes. Demineralization of the dorsal and palmer cortices in the first half of the study was not as prominent in horses consuming the high and moderate high mineral intakes compared to those consuming the moderate and low mineral intake groups. Total bone width tended to increase in the first sixty days, then increased significantly in the last sixty days of the study. No effects of mineral intake were seen in the total bone width or in any other geometric measurements. As a function of total bone, the medullary cavity decreased throughout the study probably due to endosteal bone remodeling of the dorsal cortex. Dorsal bone growth was significant throughout the study, but there were no effects of mineral level intake on changing dorsal cortical width. While higher mineral intakes appeared to have protective effects on the density of the dorsal and palmer cortices, these changes were not reflected in greater bone size. High mineral intakes produced significantly higher RBAE values in the first 60 days while geometric measurements were not significantly different between the four mineral groups. Since the low and moderate mineral intake groups experienced significantly more demineralization early in training without loss in bone size, it is suggested that the bone may have become weaker. The possibility of lessening bone related injuries from the time period during bone demineralization by a protective effect of higher mineral intake warrants further investigation to better define the mineral requirements of the juvenile horse in training

The Characterization of Zebrafish Natural Killer Cells and Their Role in Immunological Memory

Rag1-/- mutant zebrafish lack lymphocytes and were used to study the basis of acquired protective immunity in the absence of lymphocytes to the intracellular bacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri. This study morphologically identified and quantified lymphocyte like cells (LLCs) present in the liver, kidney and spleen of these fish. LLCs included Natural Killer (NK) cells and non-specific cytotoxic cells (NCCs) and were discriminated by size, and by the presence of cytoplasmic granules. The antibodies anti-NITR9, anti-NCCRP-1 (5C6) and anti-MPEG-1 were used to evaluate these cell populations by flow cytometry. Gene expression profiles in these tissues were evaluated after the Rag1-/- mutants were intra coelomically injected with the toll like receptor (TLR)-2 ligand, β glucan, TLR3 ligand, Poly I:C, or TLR 7/8 ligand, R848. The genes interferon y (infγ), expressed by activated NK cells and macrophages, tumor necrosis factor α (tnfα), expressed by activated macrophages, myxovirus resistance (mx) expressed by cells induced by IFNα, T-cell transcription factor (t-bet) expressed by NK cells and novel immune type-receptor 9 (nitr-9) expressed by NK cells were evaluated. The TLR ligands induced different patterns of expression and stimulated both macrophages and NK cells. Then fish were vaccinated with an attenuated mutant of E. ictaluri (RE33®) with or without the TLR ligands then challenged with WT E. ictaluri to evaluate protection. RE33® alone and each TLR ligand alone provided protection. Coministration of β glucan and RE33® or R848 and RE33® resulted in survival higher than RE33® alone showing an adjuvant effect. Tissue specific gene expression of ifnγ, t-bet, nitr9, NK cell lysin a (nkla), nklb, nklc and nkld were correlated to protection. The final component of this study was the development of tools to discriminate NK cell populations and evaluate the contribution of macrophages. Rag1-/- zebrafish were modified to express cherry red in lymphocyte like cells using the Lymphocyte specific tyrosine kinase (lck) promotor. Also, rag1-/- zebrafish were modified so that the gene encoding the proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase that is involved in macrophage training (raf1) is disrupted. This study indicated that the acquired protection in the absence of lymphocytes likely involves NK cells with possible contribution by macrophages