Api 1184 Body Of Knowledge

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Thiscourse prepares individuals to write the API 1184 certification exam. The course includes basic exam-writing strategies, recommended readings, and knowledge checks. To conclude the course, the learner completes a repeatable 120-question practice exam drawn randomly from a question bank that includes approximately 300 questions. The course content is based on the API RP 1184, 1st edition; however, the API indicates that students will also need to access the remaining documents listed in the API 1184 Body of Knowledge to prepare for the exam (please note that all documents must be purchased from API and are not included in the course).

Starting with the precourse lessons, students will learn the specific content in each document that is listed on the Effectivity Sheet for the exam. In the Main Course portion, course participants will complete lessons and Practice Questions that are arranged by the subjects covered in the Body of Knowledge. The final portion of the course is the Practice Exams which will test the knowledge gained in the precourse and main course portions, allowing the participants to practice their exam timing, and receive a Focus Report showing exactly where they need are strong and where they need to improve their knowledge.

Course participants are fully supported by the instructor. They will be able to email the instructor and receive help on any course related topic as soon as they begin the online course work. Course participants will still be supported via email, phone, or Zoom right up to their exam date and beyond.

All course participants are required to have copies of the Code and reference documents listed in the API 1184 Pipeline Facility Construction Inspector Certification Exam Body of Knowledge. It is not possible to prepare for the API 1184 examination without using the reference documents.

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Registrants in this course are eligible to earn CPD hours based on the time they spend on self-paced learning. The online course software will track active hours spend by the course participant in the learning modules and practice questions. A certificate will be issued to the registrant upon completion of the course. This certificate will show the total number of self-paced, tracked hours spend by the course participant, up to a maximum of 40 hours. Please note:

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The overall goal of this cooperative, multi-state, multidisciplinary, research project is to increase the efficiency and sustainability of meat production in the US and across the globe. Based on most predictions, world-wide meat production must increase nearly 50% by 2050 to meet the nutritional needs of a burgeoning world population. Moreover, meat animal production and allied industries contribute some $900 billion to the US economy each year. Meat production is not only necessary to support the health and well-being of a growing global citizenry but also a vibrant driver of the economy. In order to increase the efficiency and sustainability of lean muscle accretion, a more comprehensive understanding of the basic biological mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle accretion is necessary. Moreover, there needs to be technology developed so data-driven decision-making ability can be used to optimize further animal growth efficiency. While we have made great progress towards this goal under the current NC-1184 project, food security remains as one of six grand challenge areas identified by USDA-NIFA facing humankind. Food security or ensuring people across the globe have access to quality food, in this case meat and its importance to the well-being of US is best illustrated in our current pandemic. To that end, greater production efficiencies must be realized in growing meat animals and those mechanisms responsible for controlling muscle tissue growth need to be exploited to achieve this goal. Another grand challage that is addressed, albet to a lesser degree is childhood obesity. Skeletal muscle tissue represents some 40% of the body mass of most humans and as such is responsible for the bulk of glucose disposal by humans on a daily basis. Balancing glucose metabolism against fat deposition requires strict and complex communications between adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, a process heavily investigated by those trying to augment animal growth. At the same time, however, these same mechanisms are at play in the obesity epidemic plaquing a greater and greater number of growing children and adults. The interplay between insulin, glucose uptake and the metabolic syndrome development is at the heart of those mechanisms controlling growth. Therefore, knowledge created by members of NC-1184 are applicable to childhood obesity. Interest in the project continues to grow, suggesting a large number of scientists/investigators and institutions regard discovery activities in the area of muscle growth a viable target for increasing animal productivity. In fact, over 50 scientists claim membership in NC-1184 from some 26 states across the country, many outside the North Central region of the US. Regardless, this heightened level of interest coupled with a rejuvenated membership has spawned a real enthusiasm for understanding the nuances of animal growth and meat production. The goal of NC-1184 project is to utilize molecular and cellular tools to examine the processes that control skeletal muscle growth and function; thereby, providing opportunities to increase the efficiency of lean meat production in animals.

There are a number of active multistate projects when the USDA multistate data base is searched using the key words: muscle, muscle growth, and muscle growth and development. However, all projects focus on larger, ancillary disciplines, or are predominately focused on the end-product of muscle, or meat. A modest amount overlap that is expected given that muscle represents some 40% of the mass of most animals and forms the basis for meat production. The capacity to of muscle to regenerate using resident stem or stem-like cells makes the tissue ideal for the examination of the global cellular programing and stem cell biology research. Finally, muscle competes with adipose tissue and as such, it is often considered when studying adipose tissue growth and development(function). In fact, a number of the current NC 1184 project members are also members of NCC210 project entitled Regulation of Adipose Tissue Accretion in Meat-Producing Animals. This cross fertilization and multiplicity of projects is highly encouraged and helps foster interdisciplinary, problem solving, cross-institutional efforts.

MYOGENESIS: Muscle fibers are multi-nucleated muscle cells that are created by the fusion of muscle cell precursors or myoblasts (Buckingham, 2001). Furthermore, these myoblasts are derived from mesenchymal cells that migrate from the lateral plate mesoderm to form somites, and early embryonic structure containing myogenic precursors. Postnatal muscle growth is largely predicated on the amount of muscle fibers or cells created during embryonic and fetal stages of development (Dwyer et al., 1994). For example, double muscling, a mutation impacting muscle cell hyperplasia results in animals with extreme muscularity and in some parts of the world, these genetics are exploited to enhance meat production. Furthermmore, muscle development occurs in two waves, at least in most appendicular muscles, where primary muscle fibers form the architecture for a second wave of fiber formation that occurs mid-gestation (Dwyer et al., 1994). Understanding the temporal and spatial cues responsible for controlling this process may provide clues of how we may exploit muscle development as a means of increasing animal productivity and meat production. The Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, and Washington Stations have contributed significantly to area by understanding the browning, or changing of myoblasts into fat storing phenotypes. Moreover, the Wyoming and Washington stations have showed the timing of bovine muscle cells during development. The Michigan and Ohio stations have discovered temperature to change myogeneis in developing chicks, which has caused the industry to reconsider temperatures in commercial incubators.

GROWTH FACTORS: Myogenesis and the subsequent hypertrophy of muscle are regulated by growth factors. These factors are produced by different cell types within the tissue, such as those found in the ECM and may orchestrate growth of cell types located adjacent to the cell. Control of these factors and their mode of action remain a pivotal point to augmenting meat animal growth. One such example of how growth factors modulate animal growth is through steroid-based implants, which have revolutionized beef production in the US. Investigators from the Minnesota and Utah Stations showed these implants change the abundance of insulin like growth factor 1 abundance, which ultimately increases protein deposition in growing cattle (Thornton et al., 2015). Moreover, a number of other growth factors modulate several steps in myogenesis, in vitro and in growing animals (South Dakota, Utah). Another area of great success is the propogation and exploitation of growth modifiers, specifically the beta-adrenergic agonist derivitives, such as but not restricted to Paylean, Optiflix and Zilpaterol. This multistate collectively has had a huge impact on the development and subsequent commercialization of these products. The Illinois Station and Texas Tech have worked with private organizations to identify yet new generations of these promotants. This is just one of several examples where this multistate has contributing to increasing the output and efficieny of animal agriculture. The Washington Station has also found that retinoic acid stimulates muscle development during the early embryonic development, times were dietary interventions are possible in commercial settings. Defining additional biological steps will result in yet further augmentation of animal growth that will increase the production of a highly coveted food, meat.

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