Ying Yang Twins

August 22, 2014 Dr. Caryn Ito Associate Scientist Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research Ottawa Hospital Research Institute Ottawa, ON Dear Dr. Ito: Enclosed is my work-term report entitled Summer 2014 Work-Term Report: My experiences as CO-OP student working in the Ito/Stanford Lab at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. It is a description of the workplace, sepsis and the Ito/Stanford Lab’s sepsis project, my role in the project, and the skills that I have obtained during this placement. This report is submitted to fulfill the University of Ottawa’s CO-OP requirements. It is the culmination of my first work term. Thank you for this opportunity, Daniella Latty Summer 2014 Work-Term Report: My experiences as CO-OP student working in the Stanford Lab at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute ¬¬ Daniella Latty 6879808 Biomedical Mechanical Engineering University of Ottawa August 22, 2014 Executive Summary This report is a summary of my experience during the summer 2014 CO-OP work term. It describes my workplace, the Ito/Stanford Lab at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, my team composition, and my project. This report will also cover the skills that I have developed, and their relevance to biomedical engineering, my field of study. During my coop placement, I worked primarily on the Sepsis Project. This project seeks to develop a novel humanized murine model of sepsis to determine the efficacy of a Human Umbilical Cord…

years is not a simple thing to do because children tend to drop out of the study or move away. Fortunately for Raine, the next few paragraphs go on to tell that he lucked into a major source of data in a remote island, from which people don’t tend to move away. Because of this, Raine was able to show that children who indicate certain behaviors do in fact tend to have criminal records when they get older. The last transitioning phrase to catch my attention was during Fischman’s explanation of…

The Text The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays. The first recorded performance of the comedy was on December 28, 1594, as part of the Christmas festivities at Gray’s Inn in London. The exact date that the play was written is uncertain, but it is generally agreed that it was written sometime during 1589-1594 and between The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was first printed in the First Folio in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death, and is…

A lot of people think just because you’re an identical twin, that you must be the same in every aspect of your life as the other person. In my case, and in others, being an identical twin doesn’t prove that we are the same in all areas of life. I have an identical twin sister, named Emily. Emily is pessimistic, high maintenance and very well organized. I, on the other hand, am more optimistic, open-minded and easygoing. We have the basic similarity of our physical aspect because we are…

Emma's family had warned her that Gabby was a bad influence. But, ever since Emma's closest friend from kindergarten, Garret, moved to Arizona last summer, Emma felt empty. She was lost in her loneliness. When she met Gabby in homework club, Emma finally felt like she had a guide. Gabby had a rebellious nature. She spent her spare hours causing trouble in stores, homes and school. If a rule was made, Gabby had to break it. Emma soon began to fall into Gabby's path, earning herself more and more…

The Match Killer The world was infected with a disease called Solarx. It was a disease that made every pregnant woman with a baby have a second child created by a toxic the sun was giving off. The two babies would be born as twins. There were some women who were immune to the Solarx, but the world was at a stage where they needed more immune women than not. Every nine out of ten people had a twin. The population of the Earth doubled almost everyday. The leaders of the World Chargers Center…

Countless numbers of twins are known for their parallel mannerisms, such as being able to know one’s “thoughts and emotion” and communication with others, that they display to the public due to the relationship they share which sets them distinctly apart from the rest of society. Chris Fraley and Caroline Tancredy write that “although non-twins siblings experience differences with respect to particular activities and interests, their long history of shared experience promotes similarities in…

Thomas Bouchard, a former American psychologist of the University of Minnesota, is considered to be one of the most influential researchers of the century due to his numerous experiments involving identical twins separated at birth, as well as his striking discoveries regarding adoptees and biological parents. Some of his surprising discoveries have sparked debate and controversy among a number of different psychologists, but, nonetheless, have proven the personality traits among twins to be…

not do well in school. As said by Kovas and Haworth, (2007), scholastic achievement to some degree is passed down genetically. The twin study done by Hanscombe, Haworth, Davis, Jaffee, and Plomin (2011) was to examine the genetic and environmental factors that link disorderly and chaotic homes and how well a child does in school. Identical twins share one hundred percent of their DNA, while non-identical twins only share fifty percent of their DNA. Hanscombe, Haworth, Davis, Jaffee, and Plomin…

This study examined the effects of two definitions of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) on two personality traits, Neuroticism and Extraversion. Neuroticism also known as emotional instability. The hypotheses of the study were to associate emotional instability and extraversion traits with chronic fatigue and CFS in a genetically informative sample. Participants were monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs with at least one twin member was chronically fatigue for at least six…