Hello, it’s me Mr Curious I decide to create a new page in order to do my job. I don’t know, if you are like me, but the summarise of Scheherazade are very short and I wanted to know more about her English lesson. Consequently, I did what I do the best, yes you’re right, I search and all I find is here. Good reading!

Survey of the class.

First of all, I present to you Scheherazade’s result about her topic on movie.

1. Where do you prefer to watch movie? 8 go to cinema and 4 stay at home
2. What kind of movie do you like? Answers were very eclectic: 3 science fiction, 2 thriller, 2 action, 2 comedy, 2 horror and a specific mention to the most honest student: Porno
3. When did you last see a movie? For many people, it was the precedent day and watch the TV but few people have watched a film one month sooner.
4. Which was it? Of course, if they watched at cinema the kind of film is often their favourite, but for those watched at TV they had not really choice and the film was the same for them.
5. Which is the worst movie you have ever seen? Once again, all results were different, it’s obvious because the question was very subjective and everyone had a particularly liking, and often it was the kind that they didn’t like.

Now, I will resume results of the others groups:

• Physic Ways.

The choice was obvious for 8 people, they want to understand things material or anything else like how hearth turns, for the rest it was difficult (3), and their question was something like that: What kind of studies can we study?

They asked why we choose Grenoble; each choice was motivated by one of this answer: mountains live or near Grenoble, quality and quantity of teach.

There is 4 people who went other countries to study.

• A new of legislation in favour of pub frequentation.

All people are agreeing with the law even if there are 4 smokers (so 8 non-smokers). There is 9 drink alcohols in pub and 3 don’t drink for any reason like taste. In fact, there is a major part of drink than smoker, but we can’t draw a conclusion about student.

• Sport.

In the class, the most popular is football (why I am not surprised?) and swimming, however the most watch are football (of course), rugby, and tennis (even if nobody play it).

What’s the main value? Respect, team spirit (fighting), fairplay, self confidence.

Feynman.

Scheherazade watched a video on Richard Feynman, she took some notes so as to make a summary about what she understood about the Feynman’s video. However, Sheherazade did not take a lot of notes because her english comprehension is bad, so her summary was very short, let me show you:

Richard Feynman was a famous physicist who worked on the Manhattan project in 1942 (which build the atomic bomb), and who won the nobel price in 1965 for his result on Quantum Electrodynamique. His idea were revolutionary and he was an unconventional: he resigned from the national academy of scientist.

Of course, Elizabeth asked her class about their comprehension of the video:

What was the name of the project which took place at Los Alamos? Manhattan project

Why did he get married in 1941? Alis contracted disease (tuberculosis, in order to take care of her, his only way was the wedding.

etc…, unfortunately I can’t show you more because Sheherazade did not answer a lot of questions, as her notes were not important and detailed.

If you want more information, I give you some links:

wikipedia
Feynman online
Nobelprize

Technology and vacuum

Like survey of the class, there was several presentation about scientific articles, which talked about vacuum and technology. Four articles were explained during this lesson, the order of presentation follow a logic, each paper could presented the next. Before Sheherazade’s group, the presentation’s title was: Thin film quality and vacuum, and Sheherazade presented the deposition of silver on surfaces (medical-implant.pdf). The process is new and efficient because it’s more defined, they can control over the density and porosity of coating, instead of normal thin-film vacuum-deposition techniques. Moreover, this new process can coat organic molecules because no heat is generated at the substrate. I can cite a sentence, which resume the advantages of the new process: “Our technique enables the direct generation, characterization and energy-controlled deposition of the nanoparticles to form a nanostructured coating in a single process”. Based on the process, a new technique will be developed: to create antibacterial coating, but now they use it for cleaning medical instruments. They use a radio-frequency plasma, which removes all contamination, and applies a coating with antibacterial proprieties like silver. However, this technology open ways in several areas: nanoparticle markers for MRI, to coat medical implants. So we can ask Is it the future of medicine?

Abstract

An abstract is a sort of summary, but it is used in scientific articles. In fact, an abstract summarise the articles with more details, like process or technic. Despite it’s a summary, it is often at the beginning, consequently readers would know if the article could be used for his assignment or not. All abstracts are based on the same schema:

B=some background information

P=the principal activity (or purpose) of the study and its scope

M=some information about the methodology used in the study

R=the most important results of the study

C=a statement of conclusion or recommandation

However, there is another type of abstract: reduced abstract,this one is based on another schema, and some parts are mor light than in a normal abstract. If you want more information about abstracts, I invite you to visit the follow links:

Reducing the abstract

Writing an abstract

How to write an Abstract

Dolly, the first animal to be cloned

Creating Dolly was not easy:

Bill Ritchie removed the nucleus from an oocyte.

Oocytes have a “shell” of proteins and fibers and through this protective coat he injected the nucleus from a quiescent mammary cell into the enucleated oocyte. Then he used a tiny pulse of electricity to cause the new nucleus to fuse with the enucleated oocyte’s cytoplasm. This electricity also helps “kick start” cells into “activity” so they are more likely to divide. This new fused cell nucleus was transferred into the reproductive “chamber” of a ewe.

After 148 days, Dolly was born. She was a normal healthy sheep.

Cerenkov effect

How can I resume it? When a particle diffuse through others, there is a phenomen of polarization inversion, after, the particles want to return to their fondamental state with an emission. If you want more information, you have two choice:

cerenkov’s poster

cerenkov radiation

Who is Gyro?

We met Gyro during the lesson of Stylo, in fact Gyro is Gyro Gearloose (Géo Trouvetout in french), a genius. Of course, Gyro is a scientist and not a writer but, it was the only name of genius not ordinary.

Gyro Gearloose