Economics - Macerata - 26 Feb

Articles and vocabulary from 26 Feb

Economist - Snoop to conquer http://www.economist.com/news/business/21571452-security-cameras-are-watching-honest-shoppers-too-we-snoop-conquer snoop catch your fancy linger blind click of a heel bricks and mortar craves furious amount aisles threshold peaked gathers staff Across-the-board harness wares furnishings tracking yields nuggets bounce rate retrieve muster cope skittish creeps ends and means mall fancier M&A http://www.economist.com/news/business/21571475-urge-merge-could-be-about-return-shall-we urge

merge

bosses

frisky

surging

perkier

M&A

tottered

gripped

rushed

Deal-making

balance sheets

bungled

wreck

strightforward

brewer

nuisance

ripe

Spin-off

plug and play

vast

aftermath

wasteful

piles

soaring

Snail-like

hunting

template

Pros:

Cash

regulation

Fill gaps

Growth

Cons

Nationalism

from 6 Dec - Microbes Maketh Man - full article

Apologies, I posted the editorial - here is the full article

http://www.economist.com/node/21560523

Exam details

The exams will be in 2 parts.
1st a vocabulary test - 30 minutes - for synonyms or meanings of the vocabulary listed in the posts on this blog from October 2012 to the exam date.
No assistance of any kind allowed. No dictionaries, no computers, no phones, no notes, etc.... nothing except a pen for writing the answers.
There will be 40 vocabulary questions worth 0.5 marks each (total 20 marks).

2nd a comprehension test based on a similar article to the ones posted on the blog - 30 minutes.
Notes, dictionaries, internet dictionaries (e.g. google translate or word reference) allowed.
No communication of any kind (e.g. talking, writing, phone calls, SMS, IM, Skype, etc.) allowed unless it is to ask the invigilator, and ONLY the invigilator, a question.

10 questions - 1 mark each (total 10 marks).

No assistance will be given with any answers.

My mother is extremely ill and I may have to postpone any lessons or exams at short notice so you are advised to book any travel at the last moment.
Tim Wills

Time article from 13 Dec

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I will try to find a solution after Christmas...


try this;
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B89FhbfryOecTW1pZkRBWXp0NFk

13 Dec 2012 Sogesta

Time

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2129811,00.html

or https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B89FhbfryOecTW1pZkRBWXp0NFk

frozen

slightly slimy

farmer's market

sprouting

glossy cookbook

long winded

green ice

bounty

suspect

whip up

foodie culture

small batch

price tag

affordable

buzz kill

candy

soda

stalwart

caught hold

flash freeze

to peel

to blanche

water soluble

somewhat

shortchange

to seal

airtight

unappetizing

salt shaker

number crunch

To factor

Free-range

Grass-fed

pasture

to dwell

crowded

feedlot

lean meat

built to handle

kids

catcher's mitt

dot

bucket

raw

goodness

Down-market

mess up

to heap

Whole-wheat

comfort food

blowback

landmine

MSG

car ride

well being

focal point

take a toll

mainstream

Brand-name

salsa

guacamole

hold the line

scoop up

dips

lard

pickles

loaded

label

microwavable

acute threat

fussy

snooty

below our station

cachet No comprehension questions for this... so far !

6 Dec 2012 Sogesta

Microbes Maketh Man

http://www.economist.com/node/21560559

full article http://www.economist.com/node/21560523

trillions

gut

scalp

crevices

orifices

subtend

to harbour

microbiome

commensal

align

host

bug

shelter

break down

misbehave

acute

deal with

colour a view

richness

illness

albeit

liver

scatter

salient

phyla

repertoire

grassland

coral reef

usable

stuffed

chew up

Fatty-acid

whence

pathway

lay down

Off-kilter

alter

storage

weird

converse

malnourished

Well-nourished

discordant

rejig

twofold

links

bred

hardened

morbidly

opted

web

healthy

unenviable

hostile

suspicious

lead to

confirmatory

mice

To trigger

strip away

go awry

intriguing

top up

advert

dose

tonic

to ease

shift

range

wheel out

do the trick

take over

claim

deplete

trendy

imputed

misplaced

tick over

puzzling

a fair few

turn out

hint

What % of bacterial cells in humans are inherited ?

The microbiome is implicated in what NON-NUTRITIONAL diseases ?

What % of large bacterial groups make up most of the human microbiome ?

What human genes enable milk digestions ?

What types of bacteria change with a person's weight ?

How does malnourishment affect intestinal bacteria ?

Where does most formic acid come from in humans ?

What % of C. dificile patients were cured with 2 treatments ?

What field of science is fashionable ?

What human inheritance is non-genetic ?

29 Nov 12 Sogesta - Economist Computing with soup

DNA - Computing with soup Computihttp://www.economist.com/node/21548488ng

advent

propagate

soup

giant

base pair

Velcro

bind

strand

rung

network

linked

route

test tube

task

a far cry

prompted

pattern

disease

signature

pioneer

Free-floating

Sticky

tab

detach

culminate

threshold

weight

match

loop

trigger

Tic-tac-toe

destroy

piggyback

classifier

tricked

hijack

pathway

model

debug

behaviour

workbench

How many bases in a gene?

Can the Qian circuit fit in all cells?

What underlies the natural circuit controlling gene activity?

What was the solution to the travelling salesman problem?

What are the advantages of DNA computing?

What are the disadvantages ?