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Mock Exam 1 IPAII _june 2014

Part I Analyzing texts

a. Analyze the text according to the main criteria studied during the course.

(3 points).

University of Nebraska engineers and doctors are teaming up across

campus lines to advance bioengineering research.

The project — Bioengineering for Human Health Grants Initiative — is a

joint effort funded by vice chancellors for research at UNL and the

University of Nebraska Medical Center. Three research groups have

been funded through the initiative.

“What we are doing is trying to build interdisciplinary groups that can

work together in key research areas,” said Nora Sarvetnick, professor

and director of the Nebraska Regenerative Medicine Project at UNMC.

“The idea is to identify projects and teams that would be competitive in

pursuit of (National Institutes of Health) funding.”

The initiative grew from discussions Sarvetnick had two years ago with

Tim Wei, dean of engineering.

The first research team to receive funding was UNL’s Angela Pannier

and UNMC’s Andrew Dudley. The duo — who previously crossed

research paths at Northwestern University — is working to grow knee

cartilage. “The challenge in setting up this type of collaboration is that we

come at a problem from two different perspectives,” Pannier said. “I’ve

had collaborations not work out for that very reason. But this one is going

quite well.

“We don’t always speak the same language, but we work through the

issues because we have the same end goal.”

Sarvetnick said that the successful combination of differing research

perspectives often leads to scientific breakthroughs.

“When you are solving problems, it is important to look at them through

different approaches,” Sarvetnick said. “Using engineering techniques

that a biologist doesn’t use — and vice versa — provides a more well-

rounded picture. And, quite often, that type of collaboration opens doors.”

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Other UNL researchers working with UNMC colleagues through the

initiative are Yongfeng Lu, Tian Zhang and Zangjin Ryu. All three are

researching breast cancer.

All involved are given courtesy appointments at the partner university.

Primary research lab and office space is being provided by UNMC in the

Durham Research Center. Pannier is housed within the Mary and Dick

Holland Regenerative Medicine Program.

“Offering space and giving courtesy appointments have helped everyone

feel at home,” Pannier said. “That’s important because it would be

strange to feel like I was coming here to sit in someone else’s office and

work in someone else’s lab. Those details are why this is a successful

initiative.”

Pannier said student researchers, who make the trip to UNMC up to

three times a week, are reimbursed for their time. And, the teams hold

regular meetings, often splitting the travel distance and gathering at

Eugene T. Mahoney State Park.

Each grant is $100,000 and designed to help the research efforts build a

solid base to pursue additional funding.

“This same sort of collaborative initiative is happening at a few otherplaces nationwide,” Sarvetnick said. “But we are really trying to promote

competitive research projects that will lead to more opportunities in the

future.”

b. Identify the different parts of the following abstract and decide if it

corresponds with models 1 or 2 dealt in this subject. (3 points).

One of the many definitions of "cloud" is that of an infrastructure-as-a-service

(IaaS) system, in which IT infrastructure is deployed in a provider's data center asvirtual machines. With IaaS clouds' growing popularity, tools and technologies are

emerging that can transform an organization's existing infrastructure into a private

or hybrid cloud. OpenNebula is an open source, virtual infrastructure manager that

deploys virtualized services on both a local pool of resources and external IaaS

clouds. Haizea, a resource lease manager, can act as a scheduling back end for

OpenNebula, providing features not found in other cloud software or virtualization-

based data center management software.

Part II Open question (2 points)

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Write a 150 word composition about The History of English for Specific

purposes

Part III Optional question (1 extra point)

(Just in case you have not had the chance to submit ANY of the proposedPECs during this course).

Comment the following graph:

Figure 1.1 Submissions per day

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