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About us AIU: Who we are25 General information Accreditation The AIU difference Mission & Vision Organizational Structure26 School of Business and Economics School of Science and Engineering27 School of Social and Human Studies Online Library Resources28 Education on the 21st century AIU service

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Student Space 7 Testimonials 8 Essay by Mohamed Hassan Musse Mohamed10 Essay by Rosa Hilda Lora12 Study tips by Edward Lambert

Learning14 Education + Culture Smartphones in class / Move over, coders

15 Science + Technology Earth’s magnetic field / Bio-printers 16 Art + Design Timothy Nevaquaya

17 Body + Mind + Spirit The four food groups / Nanobots

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19 Human + Animal Rights The space researcher / Wildlife corridor

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Article publishedDecember 28, 2018. At AIU, we are very proud of our stu-dent Dr. Carlos Alberto Rossi for having received the award as “Best trainer of negotiat-ing experts 2018.”

The prize was awarded to Dr. Rossi for Share Network during the ShareA-wards and have formed this year 120 negotiators of Ecuadorian, transnational and multinational, at the levels of Chairmen, directors and

January 2, 2019. One of our graduates, Tadele Fayso, has published his article titled, “Un-derstanding Adoption in Smallholder Agri-culture: Perception & Row Planting Teff in Ethiopia” on the Juniper Pub-lishers Agricultural Research & Technology Open Access Journal (ARTOAJ). You can read a part of the Abstract of his article below:

“Technology adoption is a complex and a dynamic process that is determined by many factors such as

January 13, 2019. One of our graduates, Sivarajasingam Mahendran, has published an article titled, “Living a Full Life Despite Diabetes”, in Diabetes Singapore, a non-profit organization affiliated to the International Diabetes Federation and the National Council of Social Service.

You can read an abstract of the article below:

“How often have we heard someone having diabetes say, ‘Because I have diabetes now, I

management companies, in addition to consultants and professionals. Héctor Na-

varrete Ortega, CEO & Founder of Share Network, and the members of this community, applauded their efforts and encour-aged to continue working, growing and sharing.

Dr. Rossi gradu-ated at Atlantic International University in a PhD program in Human Resources.

perceived characteristics of the technologies, farmer circumstances and conditions. This study aims to under-stand farmers’ percep-tion of teff row planting practice and adoption

of the practice in four regions of Ethiopia. Quanti-tative cross-sectional design was used for the study and Teff growing farmers from 6 districts of Am-hara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray regions of Ethiopia were

participated in the study.”You can read the rest of

the article on the following link: https://juniperpublish-ers.com/artoaj/ARTOAJ.MS.ID.556078.php

Tadele has also been elected to serve as executive Board member and head of editorial board for Ethiopian Evalu-ation Association. And has been promoted to serve as

Director of Monitor-ing, Evaluation, Re-search and Learning for Digital Green Foundation.

Tadele Fayso has completed a Doc-torate program in Sociology at AIU.

can’t enjoy my life as I used to!’ or ‘Diabetes has made my life miserable! I am very restricted in my choice of food and life-style moments!’ Those who say such things may sound miser-able and desperate for they have made diabetes seem like a dreaded disease that they believe would prematurely

end their lives without ever having fulfilled their ambitions or their passion.”

You can read the rest of the article on the following link:

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Sivarajasingam Mahendran has completed a Doctorate program in Education in AIU.

HonorsJanuary, 2019.

This graduate student completed the majority of the requirements to obtain honors, which included a 4.0 GPA, published works, recommendation from his advisors, patent a product, etc.

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Ishmael Lee KweyeteBachelor of Computer Science

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“The time spent at AIU was an in-teresting one. Some things were

new, and others weren’t. This was my first online learning experience which means, from the beginning, things look a little strange as compared to the traditional learning environment. Instead of the physical campus, we had a virtual one. But this virtual campus also allowed students to interact with others (tutors, advisor, etc.) in a rather private way; this, in my point of view is good. The correction of assignments was done without much delay which motivates students to work harder. The submission of assignments was sometimes difficult when the web form crashes. This was later clarified by AIU that it was a browser problem. AIU has a good respond team with respect to enquiries and other important infor-mation. The student services depart-ment were always available to respond or give additional information about an issue. They sometimes call the student if need be

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Benyamin DavodianMaster of Mechanical Engineering

December 26, 2018

“I completed my undergradu-ate studies at the International

Atlantic University (AIU). Before I parted from the institution, I wanted to say something about my special experience in mechanical engineering and automotive specialization. I could not be further from the truth. Many of the courses taught me new interesting things from multiple perspectives that allowed me to think deeply and even analyze previous theories.

But especially I wanted to thank Mrs. Mayra Bolivar, Ofelia Miller for their effort to obtain the verification documents.

What's more important, due to difficult life events, I spent days and nights learning and preparing myself for a B.Sc. in engineering. During this time I moved away from entertainment and my family (who knows how hard it is to study with four small children you are happily married), my wife certainly supported me and I was encouraged by her all the time in order not to break.

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Fidelis MunyoroMaster of Project Management

December 2, 2018

“I wish to express my sincerity in that I had a memorable time of

study at AIU. My studies were char-acterized by professional back up and progress monitoring by the college staff. The level of tuition and modera-tion was quite comparatively of high standards which makes me feel en-riched with superior knowledge in my working and social environment.

I will surely be an AIU ambassador wherever I will be and recommend others to pursue studies with this great Institution.

Stephvanie WynnPhD of Industrial Organizational Psycology

January 4, 2019

“It has been my great honor to attend Atlantic International

University (AIU) for the final portion of my Philosophy Doctorate degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology. I am confident in my ability to help organizations improve processes and profitability with the education that I received for my degree.

AIU provided me and my cohorts with the opportunity to remain ac-tive in our busy and full lives while participating in online courses at our convenience. The courses covered sufficient information for those of us who are professionals in our field and gave us the opportunity to gain new knowledge.

My most grateful experience is in meeting so many others with similar educational endeavors and pursuits but from so many countries. I am proudest of the expansion of my network with people from countries that I would not have had access to had I continued at a traditional American university.

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Somalis in Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Internally, Barre prac-ticed a dictatorial rule, allegedly committing systematic human rights abuses. In the beginning of the 1980s, opposition to Barre began to form alongside grow-ing influence of warring clans on the country side, ultimately leading to his demise in 1991.

The country plunged into civil war among feuding clans and their militias, aggravated by a dire economic situation.

Up until this day, Somalia is splintered into regional blocks along the lines of major clans, although the population in the respective areas is largely a mix of different clans. Somalia’s political organization is clan-based, inciting a strong sense of collective identity and mu-tual obligation. Clan identity provides the basis for custom-ary law (xeer), which forms an essential source of physical and legal security alongside complex systems of obligation based on lineage. These social mechanisms have provided protection in the absence of a Somali state and therefore are paramount to the political landscape.

Regions have evolved dif-ferently since the collapse of Barre’s regime and have faced disparate levels of instabil-ity, underdevelopment and bad governance. While state structures broke down in the south-central region, the north-western part of Soma-lia unilaterally declared its independence as Republic of

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The socio-politics of Somalia

Introduction The socio-politics of Somalia

is a very wide topic but this paper will focus mainly on the political and social history since the beginning of Somali government. Politics and social life of Somali people always go together and there is a linkage between them.

The Political ContextIn 1960, British and Italian

parts of Somalia merged, end-ing colonial administration and becoming independent as the Somali Republic. Aden Abdul-lah Osman Daar was elected first president, succeeded in 1967 by Abdi Rashid Ali Sher-marke. Following Shermarke’s

assassination, Muhammad Siad Barre assumed power in a coup in 1969, declaring Somalia a socialist state and nationaliz-ing most of the economy.

The 20 years of Barre’s rule were characterized by an ag-gressive foreign policy with continuous attempts to over-take areas inhabited by ethnic

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Somaliland in 1991. In 1998, Puntland declared itself an autonomous state. Somaliland and Puntland have gradu-ally been able to re-establish relative peace and stability in their areas of control and have operated autonomously from the federal government. However, the presence of the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab and the emergence of an Islamic State (ISIL) Faction have recently destabilized Puntland, with ISIL being able to briefly seize control over parts of Puntland’s Gulf of Aden coastline in October 2016. Furthermore, borders between Somalia’s Federal States remain contested as minority clans voice grievances over local power-sharing ar-rangements. This has repeat-edly led to violent clashes, for example between the Galmu-dug Interim Administration (a Federal Member State border-ing Puntland in the South) and Puntland, because frameworks for the peaceful settlement of disputes between federal states are missing.

Al-Shabaab’s presence across Somali territory remains the primary security challenge for the country, hindering ac-cess for humanitarian actors to the population struck by famine. Somali clans are too fragmented to organize opposi-tion although Al-Shabaab has

weakened in recent months, among other reasons due to continued air strikes and the killing of key figures. The group has also launched cross-border attacks into Kenya, inciting the Kenyan government to build a wire fence along its border with Somalia. Moreover, the long-standing absence of authority in the country led Somali pi-rates to become a major threat to international shipping in the area and prompted NATO to take the lead in an anti-piracy operation. While international efforts had significantly reduced attacks since 2012, the number of incidents has again increased sharply since early 2017. This is most likely due to the fragile situation in Puntland and Galmudug. Both states have been struggling to fight local Islamist militias whilst suffering from a dev-astating drought. Governance issues aggravate the situa-tion: Galmudug was without a president until May 2017, and Puntland authorities are continuously struggling to pay their security forces.

Multiple attempts at peace processes, and local and international efforts aimed at building a stable government have been unsuccessful for many years. The presence of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM, in its current form established in

2013), now including the United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS), is currently complemented by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). AMISOM, created by the African Union Peace and Security Council in 2007, is supported logistically by the UN Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS). Although weakened in the face of Ethiopia’s recent withdrawal of troops from AMISOM over an alleged lack of funding, the mission is en-visioning complete withdrawal from Somalia by 2020.

During 2011 and 2012, im-portant steps were taken in the process of ending Somalia’s so-called transition period. During this time, despite a number of violent clashes, governance arrangements agreed in a Tran-sitional Federal Charter in 2004 were implemented. In August 2012, the Transitional Fed-eral Government (TFG) handed over affairs to Somalia’s first elected and internationally recognized cen-tral government, the Somali Fed-eral Government (SFG). From 2012

to 2017, under the presidency of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the country saw efforts to advance the building of a federal state. A Provi-sional Federal Constitution of Somalia was agreed upon in 2012, following a consultative process including different sec-tors of society, clan leadership and regional administrations. While this seemed to be the first window of opportunity for a real peace process in the past 20 years, progress was slow un-der President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, whose government was plagued by political paraly-sis, clannism and corruption.

The most recent elections of February 2017 have brought President Mohamed Abdul-lahi ‘Farmajo’ Mohamed into

office, who enjoys cross-clan support. The new parliament is the youngest and most demographically diverse of Somalia’s history, with half of the 283 members younger than 50, and 63 female par-liamentarians (roughly 22% of parliament). While posi-tive change may be possible on these grounds, Farmajo’s room for maneuver is yet to be determined. The current Pro-visional Constitution is due to undergo a process of revision in 2017, to which regional administrations, the National Federal Parliament and civil society will be associated. The new Federal Constitution is supposed to set a framework for the national elections in 2020. To be continued

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In many countries we just have started a new cycle ac-

cording to how human beings have divided our stay in this universe. Other countries also have a cycle start but they do so at different times. Those cycles are the so-called years.

The beginning of this calendar means for many human beings the revision of their lives. What have I done? What do I need to do better? What do I need to change? All these questions mean “making resolutions” for the new year that begins.

With the “purposes of life” something special happens: I forget what I did last year and I make a new list, which looks very interesting, but probably will have the same fate as last year: one month and I had already forgotten the inten-tions I had written with so

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much interest. Why does this happen to us?

It happens to us that we forget our “purposes” because they were made to look nice but not to help us grow as hu-man beings.

Who are we human beings?There is a very interesting

definition that includes the major aspects that define the human being.

“In reality, the human being is a whole” physical-chemical-biological-psychological-social-cultural-ethical-moral-spiritual, “which has its own, independent and free exis-tence.” (Martínez Miguélez, 1999, p.87)

If, as human beings, we are what the above definition says, then my “purposes” must be to improve some of the mentioned aspects.

The first thing I have to do is a step-by-step analysis of each of the elements mentioned in the definition and questioning how well I am or want to be in that line.

I am a physical-chemical-biological being: my body, how I take care of it so that these functions are at an excellent level. Do I eat well? Do I eat the necessary foods? Do I practice a sport?

If not, that’s where my “pur-poses” should begin.

Eating well doesn’t mean eating expensive foods, eat-ing well means: eating fruits, vegetables, meats or fish, dairy products, if you don’t have digestive problems with them, and drink at least 6 glasses of water a day.

About the sports you can ask yourself: Is it necessary to go to a gym? You can practice the less expensive sport which is walk.

Now we go to the psycho-logical-social-cultural aspect: here comes the way I feel about myself and how I relate to others. Also culturally what I’m doing to better understand the world in which I live.

Psychologically, factors such as the education I received or the social group in which I grew up can enter. That may have happened but in us is changing what of social heri-tage we had because at this time we must know what is good and what isn’t for a life at peace myself.

The psychological aspect is linked to my type of tempera-ment and character. The tem-perament depends on what I want to do; the character is biological inheritance.

The psychological is linked to the cultural. Culturally, I must know how the world is going around know where I am.

Here I must inform myself, know what science is doing, what technology is doing to choose what allows me to live in peace.

How long have I not read an article about what is done in science?

How long have I not done a course to enrich my knowledge?

How long ago did I stop studying because I thought I already knew everything?

To do “purposes” that allow me to be happy I have to see: what I can honestly do to grow in understanding with others and in my understanding of

what society is and culture are.The ethical-moral-spiritual

aspect: I have started thinking that if I want things to be done well I have to teach others with my actions.

In the spiritual you can or can’t profess a religion: if you profess to practice it with the facts. If you don’t profess it, you can’t have religion and be an excellent person who acts without harming others.

With the clarity: who you are as a human being, now you take a sheet, a notebook, your computer and write the “purposes” that your life will have for this new cycle that we are beginning.

Don’t make an endless list. It is better to make a list of what is necessary at this time and from time to time review how I go in my “purposes” of the beginning of the year.

You can live the life you want or you can drift from what others do to you.

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When you study, how often does a friend call you or text you on the phone? How

often are you interrupted by another person or situation?

Think about this… A study researched dis-tractions. The study found that when a worker is distracted, it takes the worker on average 25 minutes to return to what they were working on. This also applies to a student studying.

During that 25 minutes a lot of work could have been accomplished. So, if you can mini-mize distractions while you study, you will be more productive. You will complete your assignments faster and better.

Here are some things that you can do to minimize distractions.• Turn off your phone while you study.• Turn off Twitter and other social media.• Ask someone else to help you by handling

situations that arise.• Talk with your family and ask them to give

you time and space to study.• Study in a room where you can close the door.

Studying is a time of concentration during which your mind is developing and accumu-lating knowledge. If your concentration is distracted, in order to continue reading, you need to re-read the last paragraph or two to reconnect with what you were reading. This is will help you get back on track.

In addition, studying without distractions is more enjoyable. You feel more productive. Your mind understands more clearly. You write your essays more fluidly.

May you study in peace!

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Move over, coders

It's a bad time to be a physicist, Oscar Boykin says. He majored in

physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and in 2002 he finished a physics PhD at UCLA. But four years ago, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider discovered the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle first predicted in the 1960s. Everyone expected it. The Higgs didn’t mess with the theoreti-cal models of the universe. It didn’t change anything or give physicists anything new to strive for. “Physicists are excited when there’s something wrong with physics, and we’re in a situation now where there’s not a lot that’s wrong,” he says. “It's a disheart-ening place for a physicist to be in.” Plus, the pay isn’t too good.

Boykin is no longer a physicist. He’s a Silicon Valley software engi-neer who works at Stripe, a $9-billion startup that helps businesses accept payments online. He helps build and operate software systems that col-lect data from across the company’s services, and he works to predict the future of these services, including when, where, and how the fraudulent transactions will come. As a physicist, he’s ideally suited to the job, which requires both extreme math and abstract thought. And yet, unlike a physicist, he’s working in a field that now offers endless challenges and possibilities. Plus, the pay is great. ... Read full text: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/

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Students who use smartphones dur-ing lectures are less able to retain

course material over the long term, new research suggests.

The study, published in the journal Educational Psychology, also showed that students performed worse on exams even when they didn't use smartphones or laptops during class but attended lectures in which they were allowed.

“Many dedicated students think they can divide their attention in the classroom without harming their academic success –but we found an insidious effect on exam performance and final grades,” lead researcher Ar-nold Glass, a professor of psychology at Rutgers–New Brunswick's School of

Arts and Sciences, told Rutgers Today.For the study, researchers tracked

the performance of two groups of Rutgers–New Brunswick cognitive psychology students, 118 in total, as they took the same course over one term. The course was identical for both groups of students, but only one group was allowed to use electronic devices during the lectures; the other wasn’t.

The majority of students used elec-tronic devices when allowed, while only six students never used them at all. It seemed to make a crucial differ-ence on final grades. ...

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Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north

magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move.

On 30 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which de-scribes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones.

The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 — but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now. “The error

is increasing all the time,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the Uni-versity of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-ministration’s (NOAA’s) National Cen-ters for Environmental Information.

The problem lies partly with the moving pole and partly with other shifts deep within the planet. Liquid churning in Earth’s core generates most of the magnetic field, which varies over time as the deep flows change. In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Satellites such as the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission tracked the shift. ...

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For doctors and medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D

printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp scalpel. Bioengineers are using 3D printers to make more durable hip and knee joints, prosthetic limbs and, recently, to produce living tis-sue attached to a scaffold of printed material.

Researchers say that bio-printed tissue can be used to test the effects of drug treatments, for example, with an eventual goal of printing entire organs that can be grown and then trans-planted into a patient. The latest step toward 3D-printed replacements of failed human parts comes from a team at UC San Diego. It has bio-printed

a section of spinal cord that can be custom-fit into a patient’s injury.

The scientists first printed out small implants made of softgel and filled them with neural stem cells, again using a printer. The implants were then surgically placed inside a tiny gap in a rat's spinal cord. Over time the new nerve cells and axons grew and formed new connections across the cut spinal cord of the animal. These nerve cells connected not only with one another but with the host spinal cord tissue and the circulatory systems of the patient, which helps ensure their survival in the body. The preci-sion 3D printing allowed the softgel ...Read full text: https://www.wired.com/story/bio-print-

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In 1942, the government of Canada released its Official Food Rules to

ensure that Canadians ate well in an era of wartime rations, malnutrition, eco-nomic instability, and limited supplies. It called for the consumption of “health-protective foods” like liver, heart, and kidney once a week and more than a pint of milk per day for children. These highs-stakes, high-calorie “Food Rules” would eventually morph into Canada’s iconic Food Guide.

Seventy-seven years later, Canada’s food rules have been overhauled once again, complete with a Periscope livestream to make the announce-ment. Speaking from Montreal, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor made a hip reference to Anthony Bourdain’s idiom that, “Food is everything we are,”

adding that the central idea behind the new Food Guide was that “Eating should be a pleasure.” ...

So, what are the big changes made to Canada’s Food Guide? The most obvious one is the shift away from food groups —the cornerstone of the Food Guide since 1942— and toward how and when we eat.

Sure there’s the obvious, like eat-ing lots of fruits and vegetables (re-ferred to as “veggies”), but the Food Guide then goes on to emphasize adequate hydration, calling for lots of water and less alcohol, which con-trary to what some millennials might think, are not food groups. Meat is no longer its own category... Read full

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NanobotsHow to kill cancerous tumors is a

problem that researchers around the globe are trying to solve, with limited success. Now, an international group of scientists is trying a new technique to destroy tumors —using nanobots to limit tumors’ blood supply, effectively starving them out.

In a recent study published in Nature Biotechnology, scientists from Arizona State University (ASU) and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technol-ogy (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, demonstrated how effec-tive these nanorobots were at address-ing tumor growth. The mini robots were able to cut-off the blood supply to breast cancer, melanoma, ovarian and

lung cancer tumors in mice. After just two weeks of treatment, the research-ers reported that the tumor tissue was shrinking.

Hao Yan, director of the ASU Biode-sign Institute’s Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics, explained in a press release, “We have developed the first fully autonomous, DNA robotic system for a very precise drug de-sign and targeted cancer therapy.” He continued, “Moreover, this technology is a strategy that can be used for many types of cancer, since all solid tumor-feeding blood vessels are essentially the same.” ...

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The European Commision has pledged that the EU will cut

greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. Realisti-cally, everyone will need to get stuck in to actually hit that target but at the moment, the prospects don’t look fan-tastic: to halt climate change, the UN has said “unprecedented change” will be required, both on a social and on a global level.

However, Spanish company Ingelia may have the key to at least part of the solution: after developing an indus-trial process to produce a biocarbon called “biochar” which can be used as a much cleaner energy source to traditional coal.

Ten years ago, Marisa Hernández,

along with two other partners at Inge-lia, managed to develop an industrial process capable of converting organic waste (such as sewage and compost) into biochar.

The resulting product works and burns like coal but, most interestingly, has much less of the residual pollut-ants when produced: despite having the same potential in energy produc-tion as standard coal, its production process has a zero CO2 emission rate, as well as a considerably lower production of harmful wastes such as nitrogen, sulfur, and chlorine.

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As countries ... struggle to find enough freshwater to meet de-

mand, they’re increasingly turned to the ocean. Desalination plants, located in 177 countries, can help turn sea-water into freshwater. Unfortunately, these plants also produce a lot of waste—more waste, in fact, than water for people to drink.

A paper published Monday by Unit-ed Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment, and Health in the journal Science of the Total Environ-ment found that desalination plants globally produce enough brine —a salty, chemical-laden byproduct— in a year to cover all of Florida in nearly a foot of it. That’s a lot of brine.

In fact, the study concluded that for every liter of freshwater a plant

produces, 0.4 gallons (1.5 l) of brine are produced on average. For all the 15,906 plants around the world, that means 37.5 billion gallons (142 billion l) of this salty-ass junk every day. Brine production in just four Middle Eastern countries —Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates— accounts for more than half of this.

The study authors, who hail from Canada, the Netherlands, and South Korea, aren’t saying desalination plants are evil. They’re raising the alarm that this level of waste requires a plan. This untreated salt water can’t just hang around in ponds —or, in worst-case scenarios, go into oceans or sewers. ...

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Construction isn’t even finished yet on a wildlife corridor that crosses

over busy Interstate 90 in Washington state, but animals are already taking advantage of this safe way to roam.

“Despite all of the major, heavy machinery that is being used on top of this crossing, we are seeing wildlife starting to use it as if nothing was happening,” Washington State De-partment of Transportation (WSDOT) spokeswoman Meagan Lott said in September.

The bridge in the Snoqualmie Pass near the Cascade Range will officially open later this year.

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Astrophysicist Mirjana Pović has taught science to orphans in

Rwanda, helped to organize a support-ive community for women with HIV in Tanzania and contributed to space research in Africa. She has excelled in her own research at the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Insti-tute in Addis Ababa and the Insti-tute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Granada, Spain. For these endeavours, she won Nature Research’s inaugu-ral Inspiring Science Award ... . She impressed judges with ... her efforts to encourage women and girls in science, says Magdalena Skipper, chief edito-rial adviser of Nature Research, editor-in-chief of Nature in London and chief judge of the awards.

What draws you to Africa? I am amazed by Africa’s beauty and diversity, but I am disturbed by the inequalities between much of it and the developed world. During my PhD, I went for the first time to volunteer in Tanzania and Kenya. I was quite affected by the experience. After working in South Africa and Spain, I was invited to help establish the Space Science and Technology Institute here in Ethiopia.

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Located in Washington state, it is already saving lives.traffic, anvils, ACME rockets & road-runners,” as the WSDOT amusingly noted on Twitter.

WSDOT has already completed the construction of four I-90 wildlife underpasses. A total of 20 overpasses, underpasses and culverts will eventu-ally be available for wildlife to use, thanks to a partnership between WS-DOT, the wildlands and native wildlife nonprofit Conservation Northwest and the U.S. Forest Service. ...

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5. Time ManagementA timeless skill, mastering time management today will serve you the rest of your career.

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Royole flexible QWERTY keyboard. We’re entering the era of flexible electronics. Royole launched a flexible screen and is getting in on the flexi-act big time, with a keyboard that can be laid down on any flat surface and connected via Bluetooth. At the push of a button, it'll roll up. Presented at CES 2019.

Ninebot Gokart kit. Segway-Ninebot, the company that brought you the ori-ginal personal transporter almost 20 years ago, strikes again with this 21st-century go kart. It's an accessory for the MiniPro that lets you park your butt for the ride. It has a range of about 9 miles and it's not street legal. Presented at CES 2019.

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Core Courses and TopicsCriminal JusticeEmergency ManagementGlobal LeadershipHealth PolicyHomeland Security Policy and

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MISSION: To be a higher learning institu-tion concerned about generating cultural development alternatives likely to be sustained in order to lead to a more ef-ficient administration of the world village and its environment; exerting human and community rights through diversity with the ultimate goal of the satisfaction and evolution of the world.

VISION: The empowerment of the indi-vidual towards the convergence of the world through a sustainable educational design based on andragogy and omniology.

Atlantic International University offers distance learning degree programs for adult learners at bachelors, masters, and doctoral level. With self paced program taken online, AIU lifts the obstacles that keep professional adults from completing their educational goals. Programs are available throughout a wide range of majors and areas of study. All of this with a philosophi-cally holistic approach towards education fitting within the balance of your life and acknowl-edging the key role each individual can play in their community, country, and the world.

Our founding principles are based on the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; per article 26, AIU believes that Higher Education is a Human Right. The University has implemented a paradigm shifting educational model for its academic programs that have al-lowed it to move closer to this goal through the self-empowerment of its students, decentraliza-tion of the learning process, personalized open curriculum design, a sustainable learning model, developing 11 core elements of the Human Condi-tion within MYAIU, and utilizing the quasi-infinite knowledge through the use of information tech-nology combined with our own capacity to find solutions to all types of global issues, dynamic problems, and those of individuals and multi-disciplinary teams. Due to these differentiations and the university’s mission, only a reputable accrediting agency with the vision and plasticity to integrate and adapt its processes around AIU’s proven and successful innovative programs could be selected. Unfortunately, the vast majority of accrediting agencies adhere to and follow obsolete processes and requirements that have outlived their usefulness and are in direct conflict with the university’s mission of offering a unique, dynamic, affordable, quality higher education to the non-traditional student (one who must work, study what he really needs for professional advance-ment, attend family issues, etc.).

We believe that adopting outdated require-ments and processes would impose increased financial burdens on students while severely limiting their opportunities to earn their degree and advance in all aspects. Thus, in selecting the ASIC as its accrediting agency, AIU ensured that its unique programs would not be transformed into a copy or clone of those offered by the

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AIU students can be found in over 180 coun-tries, they actively participate and volunteer in their communities as part of their academic program and have allocated thousands of service hours to diverse causes and initiatives. AIU programs follow the standards commonly used by colleges and universities in the United States with

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It is acknowledged that the act of learning is endogenous, (from within), rather than exog-enous. This fact is the underlying rationale for “Distance Learning”, in all of the programs of-fered by AIU. The combination of the underly-ing principles of student “self instruction”, (with guidance), collaborative development of curriculum unique to each student, and flexibility of time and place of study, provides the ideal learning environment to satisfy individual needs. AIU is an institution of experiential learning and nontraditional edu-cation at a distance. There are no classrooms and attendance is not required.

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The School of Business and Econom-ics allows aspiring and practicing professionals, managers, and entrepre-neurs in the private and public sectors to complete a self paced distance learning degree program of the highest academic standard.

The ultimate goal is to empower learners and help them take advantage of the enormous array of resources from the world environment in order to eliminate the current continuum of poverty and limitations.

Degree programs are designed for those students whose professional

The School of Social and Human Stud-ies is focused on to the development of studies which instill a core commitment to building a society based on social and economic justice and enhancing oppor-tunities for human well being.

The founding principles lie on the basic right of education as outlined in the Declaration of Human Rights. We instill in our students a sense of confidence and self reliance in their ability to access the vast opportunities available through information chan-nels, the world wide web, private, pub-lic, nonprofit, and nongovernmental

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organizations in an ever expanding global community.

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Areas of Study: Psychology, Inter-national Affairs, Sociology, Political Sciences, Architecture, Legal Stud-ies, Public Administration, Literature and languages, Art History, Ministry, African Studies, Middle Eastern Stud-ies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies.

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The School of Science and Engineering seeks to provide dynamic, integrated, and challenging degree programs designed for those whose experience is in industrial research, scientific pro-duction, engineering and the general sciences. Our system for research and education will keep us apace with the twenty-first century reach scientific advance in an environmentally and ecologically responsible manner to al-low for the sustainability of the human population. We will foster among our students a demand for ethical behavior, an appreciation for diversity, an un-derstanding of scientific investigation,

With access to a global catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 participating institutions, AIU students have secured excellent research tools for their study programs.

The AIU online library contains over 2 billion records and over 300 million bibliographic records that are increasing day by day. The sources spanning thou-sands of years and virtually all forms of human expression. There are files of all kinds, from antique inscribed stones to e-books, form wax engravings to MP3s, DVDs and websites. In addition to the archives, the library AIU Online offers electronic access to more than 149,000 e-books, dozens of databases and more than 13 million full-text articles with pictures included. Being able to access 60 databases and 2393 periodicals with more than 18 million items, guarantees the information required to perform the assigned research project. Users will find that many files are enriched with artistic creations on the covers, indexes, re-views, summaries and other information. The records usually have information attached from important libraries. The user can quickly assess the relevance of the information and decide if it is the right source.

knowledge of design innovation, a critical appreciation for the importance of technology and technological change for the advancement of humanity.

Areas of Study: Mechanical Engineer-ing, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electri-cal Engineering, Computer Engineer-ing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math-ematics, Communications, Petroleum Science, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Nutrition Sci-ence, Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Sports Science, Renewable Energy, Geology, Urban Planning.

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AIU is striving to regain the significance of the concept of education, which is rooted into the Latin “educare”, meaning “to pull out”, breaking loose from the paradigm of most 21st century universities with their focus on “digging and placing information” into students’ heads rather than teaching them to think.

For AIU, the generation of “clones” that some tra-ditional universities are spreading throughout the real world is one of the most salient reasons for today’s ills. In fact, students trained at those educational institu-tions never feel a desire to “change the world” or the current status quo; instead, they adjust to the environ-ment, believe everything is fine, and are proud of it all.

IN A WORLD where knowledge and mostly informa-tion expire just like milk, we must reinvent university as a whole in which each student, as the key player, is UNIQUE within an intertwined environment.

This century’s university must generate new knowledge bits although this may entail its separation from both the administrative bureaucracy and the faculty that evolve there as well.

AIU thinks that a university should be increasingly integrated into the “real world”, society, the economy, and the holistic human being. As such, it should con-centrate on its ultimate goal, which is the student, and get him/her deeply immersed into a daily praxis of paradigm shifts, along with the Internet and research, all these being presently accessible only to a small minority of the world community.

AIU students must accomplish their self-learning mission while conceptualizing it as the core of daily life values through the type of experiences that lead

to a human being’s progress when information is con-verted into education.

The entire AIU family must think of the university as a setting that values diversity and talent in a way that trains mankind not only for the present but above all for a future that calls everyday for professionals who empower themselves in academic and profes-sional areas highly in demand in our modern society.

We shall not forget that, at AIU, students are responsible for discovering their own talents and po-tential, which they must auto-develop in such a way that the whole finish product opens up as a flower that blossoms every year more openly.

THE AIU STANCE is against the idea of the cam-pus as a getaway from day-to-day pressure since we believe reality is the best potential-enhancer ever; one truly learns through thinking, brainstorming ideas, which leads to new solutions, and ultimately the rebirth of a human being fully integrated in a sustain-able world environment. Self-learning is actualized more from within than a top-down vantage point, that is to say, to influence instead of requesting, ideas more than power. We need to create a society where solidar-ity, culture, life, not political or economic rationalism and more than techno structures, are prioritized. In short, the characteristics of AIU students and alumni remain independence, creativity, self-confidence, and ability to take risk towards new endeavors. This is about people’s worth based not on what they know but on what they do with what they know.

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AIU offers educational opportunities in the USA to adults from around the world so that they can use their own potential to manage their personal, global cultural development. The foundational axis of our philosophy lies upon self-actualized knowledge and information, with no room for obsoleteness, which is embedded into a DISTANCE LEARNING SYSTEM based on ANDRA-GOGY and OMNIOLOGY. The ultimate goal of this paradigm is to empower learners and help them take advantage of the enormous array of resources from the world environment in order to eliminate the current continuum of poverty and limitations.

This will become a crude reality with respect for, and practice of, human and community rights through experiences, investigations, practicum work, and/or examinations. Everything takes place in a setting that fosters diversity; with advisors and consultants with doctorate degrees and specializations in Human Development monitor learning processes, in addition to a worldwide web of colleagues and associations, so that they can reach the satisfaction and the progress of humanity with peace and harmony.

Contact us to get startedNow, it’s possible to earn your degree in the comfort of your own home. For additional information or to see if you qualify for admissions please contact us.

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