...Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, 1881. He was one of four children, his parents, Hugh and Grace were farmers. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London when he was 13, where he finished his basic education at the Regent Street Polytechnic. During this time he lived with his older brother, Thomas Fleming. Fleming worked as a London Shipping clerk until he was 20. In 1901 he joined the medical field funded by a scholarship from his uncle. He studied at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London. He won the gold medal in 1908 as the top student at St. Mary’s. He originally wanted to work as a surgeon but an open position in the Inoculation...
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...ALEXANDER FLEMING Who is Alexander Fleming? Scottish born bacteriologist, Alexander Fleming was born in August 6, 1881 in Lochfield Farm. He was best known for his discovery of penicillin and also for his work in wound infection and lysozyme an enzyme found in tears and saliva. He received a Novel Prize in the year of 1945 with an Australian pathologist Howard Walter Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain. Fleming was the 7th child out of a family of eight , he lived in a Scottish farm. He went to an elementary called Loudoun Moor , he then moved to Darvel and got enrolled in Kilmarnock Academy in 1894. After that he moved with his older brother Thomas Fleming who was an oculist in London and completed his education at Regent Street Polytechnic. Fleming worked at London as a shipping clerk, after that he began his medical education at St. Mary Hospital Medical School in the year of 1901. His uncle paid for his education by giving him a scholarship, he then in the year of 1908 won a medal as the top medical student at the University of London. His goal was to be a surgeon, but after he spent some time in the laboratories of Inoculation he changed in to a new career field of bacteriology. He then met bacteriologist and immunologist Sir Almroth Edward Wright who came with the idea of using vaccines for medical therapy. In the year of 1909 he established a private practice as a venerologist. In the year of 1915 he married Sarah Marion McElroy who was an Irish...
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...Dumb-Luck of Penicillin During the war of Germany, wounded soldiers were left suffering due to a lack of antibiotics that eliminated the infectious bacteria that entered their open skin. Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist working at St. Mary’s hospital in London during 1928, may have found the cure to these infectious bacterial diseases from accidental messiness. The discovery caused for intense research in Britain which soon came to a successful end. British scientists such as Fleming, Dr. Howard Florey, Norman Heatley, Andrew J. Moyer, and Ernst Chain shared their discoveries with one another. They began work in 1928 that lasted till 1941 to prove the medical possibilities of penicillin, from its first discovery, up to its development...
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...soon die. The antibiotic nature of the penicillin so due to the strain lactam ring, on opening the ring strain is relieved this makes penicillin more reactive than ordinary amides. Before penicillin a simple pinprick or tiny cut could have been lethal. There are so many people easily catching infections that would rage out of control. Children died regularly from scarlet fever, from infections of the bones, throat, stomach or, brain. Many of us would not be here today had it not been for the discovery of penicillin. In 1928, Alexander Fleming made a chance discovery from an already discarded, contaminated Petri dish. The mold that had contaminated the experiment turned out to contain powerful antibiotic, penicillin. However, though Fleming was credited with the discovery, it was over a decade before someone else turned penicillin into the miracle drug for the 20th century. The search for a wonder drug had been a focus of Fleming for some time. He had read the work of Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, which described bacteria in 1683. It was Louis Pasteur who confirmed that bacteria actually caused diseases. This wasn’t confirmed until the 19th century. Though many scientists had this...
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...because they were built to make mistakes. In life there is a balance. We balance the right of the world by doing something wrong and in this way we get along in life. If we did not make wrong choices we would never get anything done. Throughout history people have made mistakes every single day. Some errors turn out to be a good thing while some turn out to be something disastrous. The discovery of Penicillin and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, two well remembered events in history, are examples of faults made by everyday people. Sir Alexander Fleming was a young bacteriologist when an accidental discovery led to one of the great developments of modern medicine in 1929. Having left a plate of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, Fleming noticed that a mold that had fallen on the culture had killed many of the bacteria. He identified the mold as penicillium notatum, similar to the kind found on bread. On February 14, 1929, Fleming introduced his mold by-product called penicillin to cure bacterial infections. Alexander Fleming's mistake saved many lives and still continues to help patients today. The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. By the time the well, located over 5,000 feet beneath...
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...11 Lessons on Change Management: Azim Premji It’s not the strongest nor most intelligent of the species that survive; it is the one most adaptable to CHANGE” – Charles Darwin 11 Lessons on Change Management: Azim Premji download :www.gowrikumar.com/insp/pdfs/Azim_Premji_on_Change1.pdf “While change and uncertainty have always been a part of life, what has been shocking over the last year has been both the quantum and suddenness of change. For many people who were cruising along on placid waters, the wind was knocked out of their sails. The entire logic of doing business was turned on its head. Not only business, but also every aspect of human life has been impacted by the change. What lies ahead is even more dynamic and uncertain. I would like to use this opportunity to share with you some of our own guiding principles of staying afloat in a changing world. This is based on our experience in Wipro. Hope you find them useful. First, be alert for the first signs of change. Change descends on every one equally; it is just that some realize it faster. Some changes are sudden but many others are gradual. While sudden changes get attention because they are dramatic, it is the gradual changes that are ignored till it is too late. You must have all heard of story of the frog in boiling water. If the Temperature of the water is suddenly increased, the frog realizes it and jumps out of the water. But if the temperature is very slowly increased, one degree at a time, the frog...
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...major developments in understanding the genetics, biology, and treatment of the disease. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, the cancer death rate dropped 21 percent in men, and nice percent in women between 1988, and 2007.These lower death rates can be contributed to improvements in screening and early detection, and improvements in different methods used to treat various types of cancer. Although cancer is still the leading cause of death in Canada the death rates are declining, and will continue to decline as medical advances improve treatment. The discovery and introduction of antibiotics has also proved to be a very useful one. Antibiotics play an important role in our society. The credit of invention goes to Sir Alexander Fleming whose careful observations in 1928 resulted in the invention of antibiotics. Without it, many lives would have been in danger due to so many infectious diseases. These days when someone gets an infection they would get a prescription of antibiotics, and have it treated easily. Many years ago this tiny infection could have even killed the person. Another thing medical research has helped with is people...
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...Star ... JetStar Bond ... James Bond. Anything sounds cool when you say it like Sean Connery. Right? For example, say this out loud in a semi-Scottish accent, "Cards ... Playing Cards." It's even cooler when you see James Bond actually playing with cards. It's as if Bond confirms something we all know. Pasteboards are hip and in style. And while Q hasn't invented anything subversive with fifty-two pieces of paper and two jokers, we can only continue to hope. For now though, let's just relish in the fact that James Bond has featured several different types of cards throughout the illustrious franchise. The aim of this piece isn't to catalog every deck the MI6 agent has ever played with. While that would make for a wonderful article, I'd like to discuss one deck in particular that was supposedly seen in the 1964 box-office smash hit GOLDFINGER. Before your read any further though, close your eyes and think of all the types of decks used in the academy award winning Bond flick. For those of you who immediately conjure up the thought of a cheating Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) and his unaware opponent playing a game of Gin using a red deck of Aristocrat 727 Banknote playing cards poolside in Miami at the Fontainebleau Hotel, then you have a great memory! However, the cards in question are not the famous High Finished Aristocrats. What? There's another deck in this movie? Apparently. A deck of cards is supposedly shown in a scene on a Lockheed JetStar airplane that's piloted...
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...Dana L. Fleming, the author, argues that with most college students posting their whole life on social medias, lawmakers and college administration are questioning how to protect their students’ privacies. Fleming brings up that making a profile on Myspace or Facebook is free and easy to join, as the user only needs an email address. However, online identities and friendships have disadvantages when it comes to others searching for a profile. Fleming says that job recruiters, school administrators, law enforcement officers and sexual predators can easily find anyone’s profile. These profiles include; the user’s pictures, personal descriptions and information about relationship statuses, where they attend school, and hometown. Befriending someone on these websites is easy, because all you have to do is search the name and click on the profile. Furthermore, there are privacy settings that do allow users to restrict who can and cannot see their profile, however these settings are hardly used by the user. Fleming states that a report showed that 30 percent of students had accepted a friend request from a...
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...Courage only occurs when an action is consciously executed, involves a sacrifice, and is selfless. In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, the protagonist Henry Fleming does not fight the final battle courageously. Henry fails to act out of conscious decision, show willingness to put himself at risk, and put his friend’s satisfaction over his own. Henry’s courage is only temporary, and is therefore not true courage. Henry Fleming’s actions do not display courage due to lack of conscious choice. Courageous acts involve thorough consideration, but Henry initially enters the battle “unconsciously in advance” (158). His actions are not thought out in advance, and are therefore not courageous. Another instance in which Henry displays his cowardice occurs after the death of the color bearer. After wrestling the flag from the hands of the dead color bearer, “he unconsciously assume[s] the attitude of the color bearer in the fight of the preceding day” (170). A true courageous soldier would assume the duty of the color bearer in order to lead his comrades, but Henry has no intentions when he picks up the flag, he is not internally strong enough to put himself at such a risk. While conscious decisions partially define courage, a courageous act also requires a sacrifice. Henry courageously...
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...Courage is a feeling that overcomes fear during an inconsistent, and possibly dangerous, situation. Henry Fleming experiences a form of courage when fighting after Jim Conklin dies. Fear consumed Henry as he deserted his first battle. Through his short journey after desertion, Henry contemplates his decision to desert, the consequences he is currently facing, and those he will face if he returns to the regiment. His encounter with Conklin and the other wounded men describes the true horror of the battlefield that Henry has faced, and possibly suffered. The death of Conklin assures his understanding. After witnessing these events, many men may have ran from the battle, and hidden from others in shame of his actions after the battle was over....
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...Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America, by Thomas Fleming, takes us back in time to a period in post-revolutionary America. The two-party system was in full swing it was the Federalists versus the Democratic-Republicans. Starting out in 1804, when the United States was wild and chaotic time when it came to politics. Fleming goes above and beyond in this book talking not only about the duel but what lead up to it and the events that followed after it along with their impact on the United States. And on top of that Fleming gives you a sense of the time period by adding in parts about what else is going on outside of the United States such as the rise of Napoleon. He also takes on the Burr Conspiracy and possible succession of New England....
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...VARK Analysis of One Student’s Learning Style This paper will discuss Fleming and Bonwell’s VARK analysis of learning styles. (2002). It will also discuss the results from this student’s use of the VARK instrument and will compare those results to this student’s own observations about her preferred learning styles or methods. Next, this paper will discuss possible changes this student could make in her learning methods that might tend to make her a more successful student in view of her results on VARK questionnaire. Finally, this paper will briefly address the analysis of this student’s learning style in the specific context of e-learning or distance learning. VARK, an acronym for Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic, is a system developed in its current form by Neil Fleming which uses a sixteen-question instrument to evaluate a part of student’s learning styles. (Fleming & Bonwell, 2002, FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)). While VARK is commonly referred to as an analysis of learning styles, that is technically inaccurate. While “learning style”, as the term is generally understood, refers to several different factors such as working with others vs. working alone, physical conditions of the learning environment, and even biorhythms, VARK analyzes only one aspect of learning styles: the way a student receives and communicates information. (Fleming & Bonwell, 2002, FAQs).The term Fleming and Bonwell, among others, use for this aspect of learning style is “sensory...
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...Alexander Fleming From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Alexander Fleming (disambiguation). Sir Alexander Fleming FRSE, FRS, FRCS(Eng) | | Born | 6 August 1881 Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland | Died | 11 March 1955 (aged 73) London, England | Nationality | Scottish | Fields | Bacteriology, immunology | Alma mater | Royal Polytechnic Institution St Mary's Hospital Medical School Imperial College London | Known for | Discovery of penicillin | Notable awards | * FRS (1943)[1] * Nobel Prize (1945) * Knight Bachelor (1944) | Signature | Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS,[1] FRCS(Eng) (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Contents * 1 Early life and education * 2 Research * 2.1 Work before penicillin * 2.2 Accidental discovery * 2.3 Purification and stabilisation * 2.4 Antibiotics * 3 Myths * 4 Personal life * 5 Death * 6 Honours, awards and achievements * 7 See also * 8 Bibliography * 9 References * 10 External links Early life and education Fleming was born on 6 August 1881...
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