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    Blue Jay School District No. 4658

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    Photograph - A view of the Blue Jay School building near Grassland, Alberta. ATS 16-68-17-W

    Persistence of Ebola virus in ocular fluid during convalescence

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    Please note: A correction to the original article has been published. “From New England Journal of Medicine, Jay B. Varkey, Jessica G. Shantha, Ian Crozier, Colleen S. Kraft, G. Marshall Lyon, Aneesh K. Mehta, Gokul Kumar, Justine R. Smith, Markus H. Kainulainen, Shannon Whitmer, Ute Ströher, Timothy M. Uyeki, Bruce S. Ribner, and Steven Yeh, Persistence of Ebola Virus in Ocular Fluid during Convalescence, 2015; 372:2423-2427. Copyright © (2015) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.Among the survivors of Ebola virus disease (EVD), complications that include uveitis can develop during convalescence, although the incidence and pathogenesis of EVD-associated uveitis are unknown. We describe a patient who recovered from EVD and was subsequently found to have severe unilateral uveitis during convalescence. Viable Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) was detected in aqueous humor 14 weeks after the onset of EVD and 9 weeks after the clearance of viremia.Supported by a grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000454, to the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute), an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness and a grant from the National Eye Institute (P30-EY06360, to the Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine), and a fellowship grant from the Australian Research Council (FT130101648, to Dr. Smith). Favipiravir was provided by the Department of Defense Joint Project Manager Medical Countermeasure Systems

    Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society

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    Despite their central importance for Ignatius of Loyola and the early generations of the Society of Jesus, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit missions in Ethiopia are largely unknown in comparison to Jesuit encounters in China, Japan, India, Canada, and South America. This article offers a brief historical overview of these Jesuit Ethiopian missions between 1555 and 1640. The author also highlights six resonances between this early modern story of cross-cultural encounter and twenty-first-century mission and globalization. These include the imagination of a global Islamic menace; the dangers to Christian mission posed by political power and elitist paternalism; the need to envision catholicity as unity in diversity rather than unity in uniformity; the resurgence of religious and cultural traditionalism in the face of cosmopolitan globalization; and the importance to mission of long-term presence.|Keywords: Jesuit, Ethiopia, Pedro Páez, globalization, missionReligion and Globalization4-151

    Robert Buchanan 1841-1901: an assessment of his career.

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    PhDRobert Buchanan was widely regarded during his lifetime as a poet of distinction, a capable and powerful novelist, and a critic of some perception, yet his name is now associated only with one regrettable episode, while those of lesser men and women continue to be remembered for work inferior to his. A man possessing large reserves of energy, and pressed to write for a living at an early age, he produced much work that deserves the oblivion it has found; but his early verse, expressing his profound compassion for the sufferings of the unfortunate in the simplest language, some of his ballads, and not a little of his later more vatic verse, is still worthy of study. As a novelist his work is provocative and readable, but too often descends to the level of the sentimental melodrama which earned him, for a while, a very good income from the stage. As a critic he was not profound, but was quick to detect and praise expression of his own sympathy for humanity that came to represent for him art's highest aspiration; Dickens, Browning and Whitman were his heroes, and for the last two he did sterling work in helping them to gain widespread recognition. As a polemist he rushed into several arenas, for some of which his talents were not especially suited; but he publicly supported C. S. Parnell and Oscar Wilde when few found the courage to do so. An interesting man of impressive variety and undoubted talent has found an undeserved neglect, and a full-scale critical biography of Robert Buchanan is long overdue

    Status of anadromous salmonids in Oregon coastal basins

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    Thomas E. Nickelson, Jay W. Nicholas, Alan M. McGie, Robert B. Lindsay, Daniel L. Bottom (Research and Development Section, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife), and Rodney J. Kaiser, Steven E. Jacobs (Ocean Salmon Management, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-81).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English

    Second Workshop on Educational A/B Testing at Scale

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    The emerging discipline of Learning Engineering is focused on putting into place tools and processes that use the science of learning as a basis for improving educational outcomes. An important part of Learning Engineering focuses on improving the effectiveness of educational software. In many software domains, A/B testing has become a prominent technique to achieve the software's goals. Many large companies (Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc.) run thousands of AB tests and present at the Annual Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE), but that venue is too broad to address AB testing issues specific to EdTech platforms. We see a need to address issues with running large-scale A/B tests within the educational context, where the use of A/B testing lags other industries. This workshop will explore ways in which A/B testing in educational contexts differs from other domains and proposals to overcome current challenges so that this approach can become a more useful tool in the learning engineer's toolbox.Design Aesthetic

    Third Annual Workshop on A/B Testing and Platform-Enabled Learning Research

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    Learning engineering adds tools and processes to learning platforms to support improvement research. One kind of tool is A/B testing, which is common in large software companies and also represented academically at conferences like the Annual Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE). A number of A/B testing systems focused on educational applications have arisen recently, including UpGrade and E-TRIALS. A/B testing can be part of the puzzle of how to improve educational platforms, and yet challenging issues in education go beyond the generic paradigm. For example, the importance of teachers and instructors to learning means that students are not only connecting with software as individuals, but also as part of a shared classroom experience. Further, learning in topics like mathematics can be highly dependent on prior learning, and thus A or B may not be better overall, but only in interaction with prior knowledge. In response, a set of learning platforms is opening their systems to improvement research by instructors and/or third-party researchers, with specific supports necessary for education-specific research designs. This workshop will explore how A/B testing in educational contexts is different, how learning platforms are opening up new possibilities, and how these empirical approaches can be used to drive powerful gains in student learning. It will also discuss forthcoming opportunities for funding to conduct platform-enabled learning research.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Design Aesthetic
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