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Karen Mak
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What Kind of Nerdfighter Are You?
The dizzy kind
About Me:
I love being a nerdfighter.
Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and more
American Beauty, Midnight in Paris, About a Boy, Ella Enchanted, Harry Potter I-VII, Anne of Green Gables, To Kill A Mockingbird, Brave New World.
What's your favorite thing to put on your head?
Hair product
If you could do your happy dance with anyone who would it be with?
My sister
When did you start watching the Vlogbrothers?
2007
Make up your own DFTBA initialism!
Dingleberries For The Best Answer

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Karen Mak posted a status
"Nerd."
Nov 8, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"The hippocampus retrieves from, encodes and consolidates info with cortical association areas in frontal, temporal and parietal-occip. lobes"
Aug 28, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"The hippocampus is more involved of the formation and retrieval of relatively NEW non-consolidated memories versus older consolidated."
Aug 28, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"A nasometer (head gear) measures sound pressure from the nostrils and the lips separately: used to measure velopharyngeal function."
Aug 28, 2012
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"I love lasagne... and cake... ah f*ck it, what I really love is ice cream... and I love looking at unicorns."
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"For measuring chest wall mvt:a magnetometer w electrodes is more accurate than respiratory inductive plethysmography (produces articfact)"
Aug 27, 2012
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"A pneumotachometer measures Airflow (V-dot). An Electroglottograph (EGG) measures vocal fold contact or area (resistance) over time"
Aug 27, 2012
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"A respirometer measures air volume displacement (lung volume). With the time function you can use moving chart paper for airflow: spirogram"
Aug 27, 2012
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"A U-tube manometer is for estimating sub-glottal pressure."
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Boyle's law: air pressure and volume are inversely related. In an open system, air moves from high to low pressure areas for equalization"
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Speech breathing= 20% of vital capacity. Tidal breathing~1/2 L"
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Atmospheric Pressure is ~1000 cmH20; subglottal pressure is ~5-8 cmH20"
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"I will use cmH20 to measure pressure in lieu of Pascals."
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Quantization in audio recording: how the amplitude of each analog sample is coded digitally"
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Quantization size: # of binary digits (bits) used to represent each sample. More bits=more accurate. 16 is good for speech."
Aug 27, 2012
Karen Mak posted a status
"Aliasing: When the sampling rate is too low for input, a Hz outside the sampling range are sampled as another Hz within the range in lieu"
Aug 27, 2012

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