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Wikigender > Wikis > Gender and Education Data Visualization
Gender and Education Data Visualization
Wikis > Gender and Education Data Visualization
1 Mind the Gap: an online tool for exploring the latest gender and education data
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Mind the Gap: an online tool for exploring the latest gender and education data
Mind Imagine a young girl starting school in the North African country of Mauritania. What are the chances she will continue to secondary school or even university? Will she keep up with, or even surpass, the boys in her class?
To find the answers to these questions, Mind the Gap: Gender & Education, a new online game, takes players on an interactive journey where they can explore and compare the educational pathways available to girls and women around the world.
Developed by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) to mark International Women's Day (8 March), the game invites players to immerse themselves in education data for about 200 countries and territories, and highlights gender disparities in primary, secondary and tertiary education.
Available in English, French and Spanish, Mind the Gap is designed for a general audience of a wide age range, including pupils, teachers and advocates, interested in learning more about the progress and pitfalls of girls' and women's education.
Please note that the piece works in Internet Explorer 9, as well as Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Users with older versions of Explorer are prompted to upgrade or switch browsers.
Global Education Digest, 2012
Global Education Datasets, 2010
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Institute for Statistics
UNESCO e-Atlas of Gender Equality in Education
Global literacy rates are rising but women still lag behind
Mind the Gap: Gender and Education
UNESCO Insitute for Statistics


What can be done to make computers true household appliances, intuitive and simple to use even by technophobes? Computers capable of email and word processing, Internet browsing, audio and video editing and storage, simple data processing such as checkbook and genealogy tree maintenance, and entertainment in the form of games and puzzles. After all, modern cars have highly complex, powerful engines under the hood, but turn on with a simple ignition switch and only need a steering wheel, accelerator and brakes for operation. Computers should be just as simple to use. Here are some suggestions.
A simple on/off switch for instant-on computing, with a reset button for the rare occasions the system goes haywire and needs to reboot. The hibernate feature in Windows XP is the nearest thing to it, but for shutting your system down you must first click on Start (!), then hold the shift key down to change the Standby option to Hibernate, and click on Hibernate. Stupidly unobvious, and it should be easy to replace the whole rigmarole by reprogramming the current on/off switch.
Security and privacy, built-in virus and spyware protection, automatically updated. Upgraded Internet/email protocols to thwart sender address spoofing. Fortunately, the need for improved security is now widely recognized, and the search for solutions is on.
Application programs. As my former boss used to say, "Be reasonable, do it my way." That should go double for computer applications that satisfy the users' needs without extraneous bells and whistles and with simple menus to access special features and built-in security provisions. Most common menu items should be available by using clearly labeled, standard, special purpose keyboard keys; read on.
Special purpose keys on the keyboard to perform common operations in most programs. There already are Insert, Delete, Backspace, Home, End, Page Up and Down, and Arrow keys; why not have more of that kind? To start with, the function keys (F1 – F12) could be reassigned, standardized, and clearly labeled to make them more useful. F1 might always provide context-sensitive help and be relabeled as such. F2 could Save current work while shift-F2 would Save as… F3 might do Find and Find / Replace operations, and so on. Many current programs, such as Microsoft Office, already make extensive use of the F-keys, but usage is non-standard and few users are familiar with them for lack of labeling. The same holds for the Windows and Menu keys on most keyboards; they provide handy shortcuts but are mostly underused.
Wireless Connections, high-speed, self-configuring, to peripherals such as a mouse, printer, scanner, sound system, and router for connections to Internet and a local computer network. That rat's nest of wires under and behind our computers has to go!
Broadband connection to the Internet, essential for regular updates of security programs and desirable for other Internet activities.
You may be able to think of more simplifications. Let me know about them.


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Bletilla ochracea est une espèce d'orchidées du genre Bletilla originaire de Chine.

Liens externes

Coelogyninae
Espèce d'Orchidaceae (nom scientifique)
Orchidée de Chine
Plante décrite en 1913

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Endothelial cell injury and subsequent death play an essential role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Autophagy of endothelial cells antagonizes the development of atherosclerosis, whereas the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear. MicroRNA-129-5p (miR-129-5p) is a well-defined tumor suppressorin some types of cancer, while it is unknown whether miR-129-5p may also play a role in the development of atherosclerosis. Here, we addressed this question in the current study.
We examined the levels of endothelial cell autophagy in ApoE (-/-) mice suppled with high-fat diet (HFD), a mouse model for atherosclerosis (simplified as HFD mice). We analyzed the levels of Beclin-1 and the levels of miR-129-5p in the purified CD31+ endothelial cells from mouse aorta. Prediction of the binding between miR-129-5p and 3′-UTR of Beclin-1 mRNA was performed by bioinformatics analyses and confirmed by a dual luciferase reporter assay. The effects of miR-129-5p were further analyzed in an in vitro model usingoxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL)-treated human aortic endothelial cells (HAECs).
We found that HFD mice developed atherosclerosisin 12 weeks, while the control ApoE (-/-) mice that had received normal diet (simplified as CTL mice) did not. Compared to CTL mice, HFD mice had significantly lower levels of endothelial cell autophagy, resulting from decreases in Beclin-1 protein, but not mRNA. The decreases inBeclin-1 in endothelial cells were due to HFD-induced increases inmiR-129-5p, which suppressed the translation of Beclin-1 mRNA via 3′-UTR binding. These in vivo findings were reproduced in vitro on ox-LDL-treated HAECs.
upregulation of miR-129-5p by HFD may impair the protective effects of endothelial cell autophagy against development of atherosclerosis through suppressing protein translation of Beclin-1.


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Thanks to you, our generous volunteers and donors, over 124,000 families in Ukraine have received Rice Meal Bags.
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Enjoy these pictures of Rice Meals being disbursed in Ukraine, as well as volunteer pictures from Rice Packing events!
Devastation in Ukraine Continues
We read the headlines. We see the pictures. We hear the stories. Or we avoid all of that and create a lesser story of what is happening in Ukraine as the war with Russia continues - in order to protect our hearts and minds from the reality…the hunger, destruction, fear, foreboding and death.
Jagoda Pasko, individual partner with Be A Hero, called and shared with us the realities in Ukraine. She is currently staying East of Ukraine. "First, we want to thank you for sending the rice meals, helping people to survive. We are working close to the front line in the towns where they are under heavy shelling providing humanitarian aid. We are also trying to evacuate wounded people to hospitals.
"Unfortunately, one of them died on the way. He had bled a lot before we even got him to the car. This is the first time we experienced life and death so close. We are trying to do anything we can here, in any way. We will continue to evacuate people from these danger zones," she added.
"The situation is really, really bad. There is constant shelling, like private houses of civilian people are being bombed, rockets landing, fields are burning so city's won't have their crops," Pasko continued. "It's really difficult, so any support is appreciated, and we thank you!"
Those fields, the crops, are people's livelihood.
It is how they make their living and it's being taken away.
donate to disaster relief efforts
Ethel* volunteered at Midwest Mission at a time when one of the seven Ukraine shipments was being prepared to load and ship. She was moved that so much was being done to help and shared why it was so emotional to see. Her daughter-in-law, her son's wife, is from Ukraine.
They had been living in the states, but Grethen's* (daughter-in-law) father and mother remained in Ukraine, except for one niece. "When the war started one of her sisters was able to escape with her 16-year-old son, but her husband could not leave the country because he is under 60," Ethel's voice cracked with emotion. "He had to stay behind and take care of an aged mother and make molotov cocktails and other homemade bombs to use against the invasion." Her other sister, Ethel said, stayed behind to try and help get their parents out of the country. They were determined to stay and did.
"But then they ran out of water and had to get it from the fire hydrants and boil it.Then they lost gas. Then they lost electricity. Then they lost food. Then they decided they needed to leave. The daughter who remained was not able to help then. She woke up and Russian troops and tanks were coming into her suburb. She ended up in Budapest, then Germany."
Eventually the Red Cross (she thinks) was able to get Gretchen's parents out on a bus at night with no lights, off road."They got out with what was in their pockets. It was harrowing. Three and four days at a time would go by with silence. There were big blanks in communication because everybody had to go underground."
Finally, they were able to get them out. The sister who left came back and coordinated everything. They all stayed at Alexis and Gretchen's house. "It was hard for them though. An adjustment and they missed home."
Though her Gretchen's father knew and understood what was happening in Ukraine, he wanted to go back to his home.
"He wanted to tend to his fruit trees, to his home, to the place he had always called home. They did go back, him and his wife." Ethel's son, daughter-in-law and niece remain in the US. It's sad, and is not an isolated situation.
Another volunteer, Elsie*, shared her story, as well. She and her family have hosted a number of foreign exchange students over the years. Twenty years ago the student was a young man from Ukraine. "He was from the East side of Ukraine. He went back, and I was fortunate enough then that I got to go to Ukraine and visit him," Elsie said. "I was so taken with the country. I got to go into so many of the churches and the people back then were living a pretty good life. They weren't hungry…they were living a middle class life just like I was accustomed to."
Alexis* is now married and has two children. "When I heard that all this war broke out, I was really deeply disturbed," Elsie continued. "We have remained in contact, have visited over the years. He has come here for weddings and holidays, and we consider him family. "Family takes care of family," she said. He and his family left the Ukraine and he wrote me that they had been in five countries in six days. The picture of the family showed post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) on the faces of the children. Alexis has a brother in the states, and their father had a visa to the states, but not their mother. To get the US permit, they needed a sponsor and asked me."
Elsie said she had to send in her income tax returns, bank statements, social security number and "It was stressful. The most distressing thing about that time was learning of a truckload of immigrants at the border, and they all died. Here I was working myself to death to help one lady come from Ukraine, and at the same time this was happening. The conflict in my mind, I can't describe it.
"I did get to see Alexis and his family a couple months ago. They came with what they could carry in the backpacks onto the plane and one other suitcase."
Elsie collected linens from a friend to be used for Alexis' mother - who did get to leave Ukraine - and family members. "But I sit here still wondering, how can I help those in Ukraine? I'll be asking that for the rest of my life." Elsie is in her 80s.
*Names are changed for confidentiality.

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