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• Energy


  The ability to do work
• Work (in Science)


  Pushing an object from point A to point B
• You can never achieve 100% efficiency in an automobile
• Anaerobic process


  One without oxygen
• Complete energy conversion when a motor, connected to a battery, spins and lifts an object

  Chemical to electrical to mechanical
• TCP/IP


  Standard important to the growth of the Internet
• Digital divide


  The gap between those with access to information technology and those with little or none
• Algorithm


  The central concept in Computer Science
• The Internet was originally designed to provide resilient communications for the military
• Privacy


  Major concern with regard to smart devices due to data collection and cloud storage
• Compiler


  Translates a program written in a high-level language into machine language
• Determinants of health and safety

  • Bad roads
  • Availability of alcohol
  • Genetic code
  • Spirituality
• Cholera


  Spread by contaminated food and water with the cholera germ
• Communicable diseases


  • Food-, Air-, Water- and Vector-borne Diseases
  • Vaccine Preventable Diseases
  • Nosocomial (Hospital-acquired) Infections
• Malaria was re-introduced to Jamaica due to movement of people between Jamaica and countries with endemic malaria
• Demographic transition


  Characterized by declining birth and death rates, and an aging population
• Gender identity stereotypes


  Mainly developed in young children through interactions with parents of the same sex
• Gender and Health


  Explains that men and women experience sexuality and reproductive health differently in ways shaped by cultural and class norms
• Gender ethics


  Promotes a women centred approach to ethics and affirms alternative ways of being, acting and knowing associated with women
• Gender


  Explains the social and cultural differences between men and women
• Biotechnology


  • Drug production
  • Gene therapy
• Restriction enzymes are used in identification of GMOs
• Recombinant vaccines


  • Influenza
  • HIV
• DNA profiling is made possible by the pattern of a person's DNA being determined
• The National Biosafety committee identifies and modifies GMOs in Jamaica
• Computer Science


  The study of the design of algorithms and their linguistic and mechanical realization
• Emerging/re-emerging diseases linked to HIV/AIDS pandemic


  • Avian Influenza
  • Tuberculosis
  • Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever
  • Swine Flu (H1N1 virus)
• Major causes of death in Trinidad and Tobago in 1940

  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
  • Syphilis
  • Typhoid
  • Enteritis
• Regionalization of health services in larger Caribbean countries

  • Decentralization of authority and responsibilities
• Communicable diseases


  • Food-, Air-, Water- and Vector-borne Diseases
  • Vaccine Preventable Diseases
  • Nosocomial (Hospital-acquired) Infections
• Behaviours that make persons susceptible to HIV infection

  • Unprotected sex
  • Multiple sexual partners
  • Drug and alcohol use
• Algorithm


  A series of steps that are unambiguous and executable, must complete in a finite amount of time
• The Silicon Chip operates at a maximum in the Gigahertz (GHz) frequency range
• Characteristics of Intelligent Language

  • High level
  • Machine independent
  • Application generators
• 1. commerce is affected by critical mass and bandwidth
• 1. commerce categories


  • Business-to-Business
  • Business-to-Consumer
  • Consumer-to-Consumer
  • Government-to-Consumer
• Digital divide


  The gap between those who do and those who do not have access to information technology
• Nano Radio


  Molecules that can transmit and receive radio signals as in radio frequency identification tags
• Microsoft Office 2010


  Commercial off the Shelf software distribution model
• WebMd


  Example of an Expert system, which is an Intelligent System