Engineering Resume Resources

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Anyone have good engineering resume websites or tutorials they can share? I've seen or found sources to write general resumes but it seems that engineering resumes are slightly different in the content they should have.

Also, should the resume cater to the job description or just have a gener

Researchers Track the HIV Virus to a Hideout in the Bone Marrow | 80beats

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HIV virusFor a study this week in the journal Nature Medicine, Kathleen Collins and her team have uncovered another of HIV’s dirty tricks: the virus can hide out in bone marrow cells and lie in wait for the right time to strike.

In recent years, drugs have reduced AIDS deaths sharply, but patients need to keep taking the medicines for life or the infection comes back, she said. That’s an indication that while the drugs battle the active virus, some of the disease remains hidden away to flare up once the therapy is stopped [AP]. One place the researchers already knew HIV could hide was inside resting T cells. However, Collins says, she thought T cells alone didn’t offer a complete picture of the virus’ ability to play hide-and-seek.

So she and her team took hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs) from bone marrow cells—so called because they eventually turn into blood cells—and exposed them to HIV. The infection killed some cells right away. But when the team forced the others to differentiate, becoming blood cells, they say, they saw a dramatic increase in viral activity triggered by the differentiation. In short, HPCs represented another HIV reservoir. “To my knowledge, we are the first to find another real reservoir beyond the resting T cell,” Collins said [The Scientist]. When the scientists then studied HIV patients who’d had undetectable viral loads for six months or more, they found HIV infecting the bone marrow of about 40 percent.

The study is an important step for scientists trying to track how HIV behaves over an infected person’s lifetime, and why it’s able to come back with a vengeance even after a long latent period. But it also presents new challenges because killing off bone marrow cells is a dicey proposition [BusinessWeek]. Killing all the infected bone marrow cells would also kill the patient, Collins says. However, “maybe we could find ways of targeting only the latently infected bone marrow cells,” she added [BusinessWeek].

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Required Torque

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MAX OUTPUT TORQUE 65000 Nm
GEAR BOX WT 290 Kg
MAX RADIAL FORCE ON FLANGE 150 kN
MAX AXIAL FORCE ON FLANGE 50 kN
AVAILABLE RATIOS 120.3
DRUM CAPACITY 8-10 m ^3

TRANSMISSION RATIO MOTOR PINION/PUMP 2.63:1
POWER OF THE ENGINE 82 kw

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A Celebration of the Life of Jame Goldstein

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(Editor's Note: Jame Goldstein, wife of State Chairman Sam Goldstein, passed away Saturday after a long battle with breast cancer. Jame was a long time Libertarian activist, candidate and loved member of our Libertarian Party family. Please support her favorite charity in an effort to ensure that other loving mothers and wives are not taken too soon: The Weekend to End Breast Cancer benefiting St. Vincent Foundation.)

Jame Stuart Goldstein was born in Oakland, CA on October 20, 1957, the second daughter of Commander Charles Harnden (U.S. N. Ret.) and Loraine Harnden. As a Navy brat she grew up in Albuquerqe, New Mexico, Corpus Christi, Texas, Sunnyvale and Alameda California, Atsugi, Japan and Memphis, Tennessee.

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Alloy for Smooth, Lapped Surface

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I am looking for a smooth surface of seal slots that will be ground in a rectangular piston. I am trying to get an as fine as possible (lapped quality) surface perhaps by fine grinding. The material should lend itself for that need.

I had picked 1330 (or 1320) but can't get it from t

The Newest Experts in Landmine Detection: African Pouched Rats | Discoblog

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heroratStruggling for a gift idea? How about gifting a rat through “Adopt-a-HeroRat.” These are no regular New York City-type rats, creepily scampering across train tracks or spreading disease; these so-called HeroRats help save lives by sniffing out unexploded landmines in Mozambique. For just six dollars a month, you can choose to support the good work of “Allan,” “Kim,” “Tyson,” or “The Chosen One.”

The rats being used in Mozambique’s mine-sweeping operations are African pouched rats; they’re small, lightweight (weighing about 3 pounds), and, according to the BBC, surprisingly cute. Traditionally, mine-detection has been carried out by metal detectors and sniffer-dogs, but the rats are the latest workers to join the team. However, the mine-removal process is still dangerous and labor-intensive: Once a rat discovers a mine it has to be dismantled by a human.

A bunch of these rats have been trained by APOPO, a joint Belgian/Tanzanian organization that taught the rodents to associate the smell of TNT in unexploded explosives with food. So, much like the dogs that Igor Pavlov taught to associate a certain stimuli with a particular response, the rats associate mines with delicious snacks, and are highly motivated to find them.

APOPO’s rats aren’t deployed in the field without proper training, of course. First, they must attend a grueling boot camp in Tanzania, where, much like sniffer dogs, they work with individual human trainers. Each rat works in a training box and is fastened to a search line, which is strung between its two trainers. The rat sniffs up and down the box, moving through different lanes, systematically. When it smells an explosive, it starts scratching the top soil. The trainer clicks a clicker, the rat steps aside and gets his reward–a piece of banana. APOPO trainers say they’re proud that the HeroRats are helping to find and eliminate the three million unexploded mines that still clutter Mozambique in the aftermath of a deadly civil war.

But the HeroRats’ life is not all sniffing and bananas, they have had their share of criticism too. British Army vet Andy Smith, who works with de-mining groups worldwide, told the online magazine Miller-McCune that while mine-detecting rats are “media-sexy” and attract a lot of money, they’re highly inefficient:

Their legs are too small to walk regular patterns in overgrown fields, so vegetation must be trimmed, and the rats attached to a string to literally keep them in line. “You need to spend so much time clearing space, you’re better off doing it manually,” Smith says.

But maybe mine detecting personnel who are working through the painstaking process of defusing deadly landmines across 70 countries need all the help they can get. And maybe “The Chosen One” can, in some small way, contribute to this effort.

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