U Tracks

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Trackstypically consist of 8-10 electives and a related capstone course and offer the opportunity to develop expertise in one of five forward-looking areas of business specialization. Some tracks involve cross-campus collaboration with faculty and other graduate students. Enrolling in a track is optional.

Business Analytics and Entrepreneurship are available in the online format. Part-time students who have the ability to take on-campus classes during the day have the opportunity to pursue the remaining tracks.

Our Longitudinal Academic Tracks allow students to explore various areas of interest in conjunction with the four-year medical school curriculum. All tracks are faculty-run, scholarly experiences for medical students interested in developing attitudes and skills for self-directed, lifelong learning and career development.

Interested students may apply during first year of medical school. Students who successfully complete a track by meeting all track requirements and in good academic standing, graduate from the medical school with distinction.

The Longitudinal Academic Tracks are extracurricular opportunities that enhance the core curriculum and allow students to build upon a specific interest in medicine over the course of the four-year undergraduate medical education curriculum. In effort to ensure prioritization of core curricular elements and support workload balance, students must be in good academic standing (as outlined below) to participate in a Track.

Any student below passing in two longitudinal courses, or below passing in one longitudinal course and below 70% in two or more modules, will NOT be eligible to participate in an extracurricular track. Longitudinal courses that are less than 10% complete at the end of Block 2 are not considered in the determination of good academic standing for track participation eligibility.

You can swap paint on dozens of tracks in a lineup that includes every bank, bump and barrier on these road courses and ovals. Heralded tracks that play host to a variety of races, like the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit or the Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, are all at your fingertips. From practice laps to championship races, join the pros on the tracks where racing legends are made.

We feature seven unique go-kart tracks the entire family is sure to enjoy. Experience twisting and turning fun on the High Bank Oval Track, Fast Track, Family Track, Speed Racer, Kids Track, Junior Racer & Slick Track!

Panthers are seldom seen but they do leave evidence behind as they travel in the form of tracks, scrapes and other markers. In this section you can learn to spot these subtle clues that a panther was in the area.

Tracks are the most common sign left by panthers. Panther tracks have some unique characteristics that help clearly distinguish them from other Florida animals such as bears, bobcats, coyotes and dogs.

Figure 1. Comparison of front and rear tracks

The two images shown to the left show a comparison of a panther's front foot (left image) and back foot (right image). A panther's front feet are rounded with a wide pad whereas their back feet are oval-shaped with a narrow pad.

There are four toes that show on the front and hind tracks. They are teardrop-shaped and offset around the pad (the toes are not parallel with each other). A leading toe corresponds with our middle finger and helps differentiate the left and right foot. The claws are retractable and in most cases do not show. However, if the panther is running or walking through deep mud, claw marks may be visible (Figure 2).

Panther tracks are most often confused with dog tracks. Unlike panther tracks, the pad of a dog track is triangular shaped, the toes are even or parallel with each other and blunt claw marks are usually present (Figure 4).

The scats are tubular shaped, about one and a half inches in diameter, and can be up to ten inches long. The scats also are segmented and twisted, often breaking at these junctions, and the ends are frequently tapered and pointed. Unlike house cats, panthers do not cover their scats except near kill sites. Bobcat scats have the same characteristics as panther scats but are generally smaller in length and diameter and contain smaller bone fragments.

One way panthers communicate with each other is by making scrapes. Scrapes are piles of soil, leaves or pine needles marked on top with urine or occasionally scat. Panthers make a scrape by pushing their hind feet backwards, heaping up a pile of debris and leaving two parallel strips on the ground approximately four to eight inches long. Occasionally you can see individual grooves left by the toes and, on certain surfaces, a track at the base of the debris pile might be visible.

Scrapes tend to last a relatively long time and can serve as messages to other panthers via both sight and smell. Males scrape to mark their territories and advertise their presence as a way to avoid conflicts with each other. This system of mutual avoidance allows males to overlap their territories while avoiding each other. Females scrape when in estrous to advertise their receptivity to breeding.

Bobcats also make scrapes but they can be differentiated from panther scrapes by the smaller width of their feet. To visualize the difference, imagine the individual foot of a panther scrape being made using all four fingers of your hand whereas the scrape of a bobcat appears as if only two fingers were used. The size of the pile of debris is not a good indicator as to which species made the scrape.

An animal preyed upon by a panther can be identified by the unique manner in which a panther kills and consumes its prey. Panthers generally suffocate their prey by biting the throat at the base of the lower jaw and collapsing the trachea (windpipe). Another method used by panthers is to bite the back of the neck at the base of the skull, dislocating the vertebra. This instantly paralyzes and quickly kills their prey. Panthers are very efficient at subduing prey and the carcasses of their prey show very little external damage until a panther begins to eat it.

Conversely, animals that have multiple bites on other parts of their body, such as their legs or belly, and gaping wounds not associated with feeding by the predator, are indicative of dog or coyote attacks. As a panther feeds, it typically enters the body cavity through the chest and eats the vital organs first, particularly the heart and liver. The ribs are often chewed off, sometimes to near the backbone. The entrails (stomach and intestines) are not eaten, but are removed and buried nearby.

When the panther has eaten its fill, it will cover its prey item by raking leaf litter and other ground debris on top of it. This is known as a cache. This preserves the carcass surprisingly well even in warm temperatures. The panther will return several times to continue feeding on the carcass. Each time it will uncover the remains, usually move it a short distance and feed, and then cover it again. A prey item left uncovered indicates the panther is done feeding and will not return.

When a panther makes a kill, it drags its meal to a secluded location, usually into some thick, brushy vegetation where it can eat undisturbed. Panthers typically grab their prey by the neck region and then straddle the body while walking forward. A drag mark on open ground will be noticeable as a disturbed area a couple of feet wide, depending on the size of the animal being dragged, with panther tracks on either side of the drag mark.

Drag marks may be obvious if the carcass was moved across bare sand or subtle if it was moved across grass. Vegetation will be bent down or broken and will point in the direction of travel. Another clue can be hair from the carcass getting caught on any protruding obstructions such as rocks, logs or branches.

Panthers scratch on trees to maintain their claws just as house cats do. A downed tree or log seems to be preferred but they will also scratch on standing trees, particularly around kill sites. In south Florida the preferred scratching post seems to be a fallen down cabbage palm with a smooth trunk.

Display your own data as custom annotation tracks in the browser. Data must be formatted in bigBed, bigBarChart, bigChain, bigGenePred, bigInteract, bigLolly, bigMaf, bigPsl, bigWig, BAM, barChart, VCF, BED, BED detail, bedGraph, broadPeak, CRAM, GFF, GTF, hic, interact, MAF, narrowPeak, Personal Genome SNP, PSL, or WIG formats.

You can paste just the URL to the file, without a "track" line, for bigBed, bigWig, bigGenePred, CRAM, BAM and VCF.

To configure the display, set track and browser line attributes as described in the User's Guide.

Examples are here. If you do not have web-accessible data storage available, please see the Hosting section of the Track Hub Help documentation.

Please note a much more efficient way to load data is to use Track Hubs, which are loaded from the Track Hubs Portal found in the menu under My Data. Paste URLs or data: Or upload: Optional track documentation: Or upload: Click here for an HTML document template that may be used for Genome Browser track descriptions.

Loading Custom Tracks An annotation data file in one of the supported custom track formats may be uploaded by any of the following methods:

If a login and password is required to access data loaded through a URL, this information can be included in the URL using the format protocol://user:pass...@server.com/somepath. Only basic authentication is supported for HTTP. Note that passwords included in URLs arenot protected. If a password contains a non-alphanumeric character, such as $, the character must be replaced by the hexidecimal representation for that character. For example, in the password mypwd$wk, the $ character should be replaced by %24, resulting in the modified password mypwd%24wk.

Tracks help you build a personalized ASM Microbe experience. With each track focused on a different scientific area, you can easily plug in to your community, navigate and select sessions and explore research presentations that align with your interests.

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