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Now that the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the illness it causes, are spreading among communities in the United States and other countries, phrases such as social distancing, self-quarantine and flattening the curve are showing up in the media.

What is flattening the curve?

Flattening the curve refers to using protective practices to slow the rate of COVID-19 infection so hospitals have room, supplies and doctors for all of the patients who need care.

A large number of people becoming very sick over the course of a few days could overwhelm a hospital or care facility. Too many people becoming severely ill with COVID-19 at roughly the same time could result in a shortage of hospital beds, equipment or doctors.

On a graph, a sudden surge in patients over a short time could be represented as a tall, narrow curve.

On the other hand, if that same large number of patients arrived at the hospital at a slower rate, for example, over the course of several weeks, the line of the graph would look like a longer, flatter curve.

In this situation, fewer patients would arrive at the hospital each day. There would be a better chance of the hospital being able to keep up with adequate supplies, beds and health care providers to care for them.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-social-distancing-and-self-quarantine

Observe the vocabulary selected from the text from question in the first column and the definitions in the second column. Match the columns relating vocabulary to its definition:
First Column: Vocabulary 1- illness 2- overwhelm 3- shortage 4- narrow 5- facility
Second Column: Definition/Synonym ( ) of small width. ( ) to have an excessive load or amount. ( ) space or equipment necessary for doing something. ( ) the lack of something in sufficient amounts. ( ) the condition of not having good health.
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# Questão 669267

Inglês - Vocabulário - FURB - 2020

Read the text below and decide which option best fits each gap:

Planetary Artistry

By Johanna Kieniewicz

For me, the highlight of this past week's science news was the images __________ back from the Curiosity rover, providing __________ geologic evidence that water flowed on Mars. Of course, this wasn't exactly a surprise; for decades, planetary scientists have suggested the channel networks visible in spacecraft imagery couldn't have been made by anything else. The evidence has been __________ as well, as various clay minerals and iron oxides have been identified through hyperspectral imagery.
Nonetheless, I suspect that the image of definitely water-lain __________ made the heart of more than one geologist __________ a beat. Ground truth. You could argue that the scientific exploration of the extra-terrestrial is, at least __________ part, a search for meaning: to position us within a larger cosmology. But our fascination with, and connection to, what we see in the night sky comes not just through science, but also through art. So it should come as no surprise that scientific images of planetary surfaces have __________ inspiration to a range of artists from Galileo - whose first sketches of the moon through a telescope are __________ beautiful - to Barbara Hepworth - whose interpretations of the lunar surface are far less literal. Source and full text: http://blogs.plos.org/attheinterface/2012/10/04/planetary-artistry/
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# Questão 669268

Inglês - Vocabulário - FURB - 2020

Choose the best answer that completes the sentence: A civilized man respects all life and __________ cruelty to animals.

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# Questão 669271

Inglês - Vocabulário - FURB - 2020

Choose the best answer that completes the sentence He became a rich man after he was __________ a great deal of money by his aunt whom he had never seen before.:

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# Questão 669272

Inglês - Vocabulário - FURB - 2020

The exercise below tests your abilities in understanding business vocabulary related to mortgages and loans.
1 You can get 2.2% __________ on your savings at our bank. 2 I couldn't buy the house because the bank refused to give me a __________. 3 We __________ a twenty-year mortgage on the house. 4 We __________ our mortgage last year, so we have no debts now. 5 I couldn't afford to buy the car, so I got a small __________ from the bank. 6 We paid 4% interest __________ the loan.
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# Questão 669325

Inglês - Vocabulário - EDUCA - 2020

Answer the question according to the text bellow

THE CREATIVE BRAIN IS WIRED DIFFERENTLY

Scientists studying brain scans of people who were asked to come up with inventive uses for everyday objects found a specific pattern of connectivity that correlated with the most creative responses. Researchers were then able to use that pattern to predict how creative other people's responses would be based on their connections in this network. The study is described in a January 15 (2018) paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"What this shows is that the creative brain is wired differently," said Roger Beaty, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychology and the first author of the study. "People who are more creative can simultaneously engage brain networks that don't typically work together. We also used predictive modeling to show we could predict, with some degree of accuracy, how creative people's ideas were (based on brain scans) that had already been published." Beaty and colleagues reanalyzed brain data from previous studies and found that, by simply measuring the strength of connections in these peoples' brain networks, they could estimate how original their ideas would be.

While the data showed that regions across the brain were involved in creative thought, Beaty said the evidence pointed to three subnetworks -- the default mode network, the salience network and the executive control network -- that appear to play key roles in creative thought.

The default mode network, he said, is involved in memory and mental simulation, so the theory is that it plays an important role in processes like mindwandering, imagination, and spontaneous thinking.

"In terms of creativity, we think that's important for brainstorming," Beaty said. "But you're not always going to stumble onto the most creative idea that way, because you might be drawn to something unoriginal from memory, so that's when these other networks come online."

The salience network, he said, detects important information, both in the environment and internally. When it comes to creativity, researchers believe it may be responsible for sorting through the ideas that emerge from the default mode network.

Lastly, Beaty said, the executive control network works to help people keep their focus on useful ideas while discarding those that aren't working.

"It's the synchrony between these systems that seems to be important for creativity," Beaty said. "People who think more flexibly and come up with more creative ideas are better able to engage these networks that don't typically work together and bring these systems online."

To identify the brain network involved in creativity, Beaty and colleagues recruited a total of 163 volunteers, and used functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) technology to scan their brains as they tried to conceive of creative ideas for everyday objects, like a brick or a knife or a rope.

The team then trained "raters" to review the responses from participants and evaluate how creative their ideas were.

"Creativity is typically defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas," Beaty said. "We correlated the connectivity strength in this network while they were thinking creatively with the quality of their responses."

Based on the results of that test, Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.

"We used already-published data. we found that based on how strong the connections are in this network, we could guess pretty accurately how creative you're going to be on a task," Beaty said.

Ultimately, Beaty said he hopes the study dispels some myths about creativity and where it comes from.

"One thing I hope this study does is dispel the myth of left versus right brain in creative thinking," he said. "This is a whole-brain endeavor."

It's also not clear that this can't be modified with some kind of training. "It's not something where you have it or you don't," he added. "Creativity is complex, and we're only scratching the surface here, so there's much more work that's needed."

Adapted from: Harvard University. Roger E. Beaty, Yoed N. Kenett, Alexander P. Christensen, Monica D. Rosenberg, Mathias Benedek, Qunlin Chen, Andreas Fink, Jiang Qiu, Thomas R. Kwapil, Michael J. Kane, Paul J. Silvia, 2018, accessed in February 2020.

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