The purpose of this discussion is to predict how a country's demographic indicators might affect their environmental indicators by choosing indicators, creating a plot and discussing it in your post.You will have the opportunity to develop skills/knowledge in:predicting, plotting and discussing the correlation between demographic and environmental indicatorsidentifying demographic, social and environmental consequences of industrializationComplete the following tasks for this discussion:Recall in Unit 5, Section 5 (Links to an external site.) of our reading, we learned about how population affects "resources such as land, food, water, soils, and services from healthy ecosystems, such as water filtration through wetlands. Over-consumption uses up or severely depletes supplies of non-renewable resources, such as fossil fuels, and depletes renewable resources such as fisheries and forests if we use them up faster than they can replenish themselves." For this discussion, visit Hans Rosling’s Gap minder (Links to an external site.) and create a plot including one demographic indicator and one environmental indicator. (Recall that demographic means relating to the size and structure of human population. These fall under the "Population" tab on Gapminder. Environmental indicators would be under the "Energy" or "Environment" tabs.) Include the following in your post:a screenshot of your plotdescribe which variables you chosedescribe the relationship you found. How do the two variables relate to one another? Is it what you expected?were there any surprising findings?In addition, respond to two other students' posts reflecting on their plots and findings. Is the relationship they plotted between variables what you would have expected? Why or why not?To help in the completion of this activity, here are my tips for success…You have until the following week's Friday discussion deadline to reply to another student. Responses are 40% of the grade for the discussion.Here is an example plot. I chose all countries individual CO2 emissions (y axis, environmental indicator) versus babies per woman (total fertility rate) (x axis, demographic indicator). They have a roughly linear relationship (straight line) with very few outliers. This is what I expected - that countries with very high fertility rates have low CO2 emissions as they are less industrialized, or developed. I do find it interesting that countries that match the US in terms of fertility rate (the biggest red bubble towards the left), can also have a much lower carbon footprint.

intellectual Property (IP) is important in the business of biotechnology. This assignment is designed to familiarize you with the basics of searching publicly available patent databases. It is not as hard as it sounds - but it is a very important and useful skill. In a future course, you will find some of the capstone projects for this program involve researching and assessing the intellectual property for startup companies. When working in any company, ignorance about the existence of a patent that you have violated in producing your own product is not an acceptable excuse and can be a very costly mistake!For this assignment begin by selecting a domain or topic to search for. I encourage you to be very specific. If you are stuck for something to search for, go back to the antibody you reported on or the expression system you researched, or an enzyme we discussed. There are several patent search engines out there including the list below. Also, you may want to do a search for general patent information, if necessary to understand concepts, terms, details regarding intellectual property. One overview I like is http://www.uspto.gov/patents-getting-started/patent-basics/types-patent-applications/utility-patent/process-obtaining US Patent Office http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html PCT: http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/structuredSearch.jsf Google Patents: https://patents.google.com For this assignment - write a concise and articulate short answer report following the bulleted list below addressing the following:Topic. The specific topic you identified for your patent searchIssued Patent. One US patent noting the number, title, and filing date of an ISSUED US PATENT on the topic you chose and the expiration date for that patent (and why you believe that is the date).PCT filing. One PCT filed published application on the same topicSearch by Inventor. Find one patent number and title issued with Paul Allenza (one of the UMGC biotechnology instructors) as one of the inventors. Also find one PCT-filed application with Allenza as one of the inventors but which never became a US-issued patent. Also give two possible reasons (no more than 3-4 words for each reason!) why some applications [eg some of Paul Allenza’s PCT published applications] may never show up as US issued patents.General. What does PCT stand for? Explain why the PCT patent database search is an important tool for a biotechnology researcher in the US. NOTE: A common mistake is not to include a complete patent number. A patent number will look like US12345678B1 (not just 12345678). A PCT patent application will be something like WO2004029577A2, WO stands for World International Property Organization, don't use a EP1234556A1 number, that is a European patent number which may or may not be PCT. Read the whole question and answer each part. Answers can be short answer or a couple sentences as needed. This is not a 'prose' assignment, doesn't have to be a written paper. If you pay attention to this paragraph you will avoid 99% of common mistakes for this assignment.What: Patent Searching assignment posted in your Assignments Folder. The assignment should be about 600 words, short answer format but using APA format for citations and references as needed.