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The carefree days of summer are over and the Fall Quarter is officially in session. Here’s a quick journal read to get the synapses warmed up: Vacation v. Stress: A context-changing framework of characterizing jargonistic erudition.

“This paper presents an alternative visual web-enabled interpretation of the short-based graphical sequential narration titled Vacation v. Stress (VAC). It is hypothesized that use of this secondary interface suffused with third-person linguistic usage and academic spatial distribution will provide improvement in perceived acumen generated from stochastic interactions with supervisory archtypes found in learning environments. Results show that persistent exposure to phdcomics dot com (PDC) is mildly correlated to jocular deportment, which suggests improvements in temporal-delay behavior of bounded activity.”

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RapidResponse is a mHealth platform developed by the Earth Institute in collaboration with the UNICEF Innovation Group for the Millennium Villages Project. RapidResponse uses SMS text messages to facilitate and coordinate the activities of field based health care providers, usually community health care workers (CHWs). Using simple text messages, CHWs are able to register patients and send in health reports to a central web dashboard that allows a health team to closely monitor the health of their community. Powerful messaging features help facilitate communication between the members of the health system and an automated alert system helps reduce gaps in treatment.

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