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In this interactive object, learners examine the structural-functional, social-conflict, and symbolic interaction analyses of religion. A mind map and quiz questions are included.
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- Sociology
- Keywords:
- Religions Symbolic interactionism
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- Others
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The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.
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- English Language and Communication
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- Rhetoric Textbooks Written communication
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- e-book
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In this interactive object, learners identify the parts of an animal cell and its organelles.
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In this video, learners view the parts of an animal cell and its organelles.
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- Biology
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- Cell -- Physiology Cytology Cell organelles
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- Video
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"A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports."--BC Campus website.
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- Computing and Mechanical Engineering
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- Textbooks Systems engineering
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- e-book
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e-book
"Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history
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- Philosophy
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- Logic Reasoning
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- e-book
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Join a panel of the Directors of the educational development/enhancement centres in UGC-funded institutions in this hybrid seminar in which they explain their respective institutions’ stance and actions towards the use of Generative AI in learning, teaching and assessment. It is our honour that the UGC Secretary-General will facilitate the panel discussion. Examples of how assessment and learning activities are re-designed in different institutions to leverage the use of Generative AI will be presented, with sharing from teachers and students.
Event Date: 8/5/2023
Speakers (in order of university name):
Prof. Kenneth Lo, Director, TED, CityU
Dr Theresa Kwong, Director, CHTL, HKBU
Prof. Chun Ka Wai, Cecilia, Director, CLEAR, CUHK
Prof. Kong Siu Cheung, Director, LTTC, EDUHK
Dr Julia Chen, Director, EDC, PolyU
Dr Sean McMinn, Director, CEI, HKUST
Prof. Cecilia KY Chan, Associate Director, CETL, HKU
Facilitator(s): Prof. James Tang, Secretary-General, University Grants Committee
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- Lesson Design
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- Artificial intelligence College teaching Artificial intelligence -- Educational applications
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- Video
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Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded. Komnzo verbs exhibit what may be called ‘distributed exponence’, i.e. single morphemes are underspecified for a particular grammatical category. Therefore, morphological material from different sites has to be integrated first, and only after this integration can one arrive at a particular grammatical category. The descriptive approach in this grammar is theory-informed rather than theory-driven. Comparison to other Yam languages and diachronic developments are taken into account whenever it seems helpful.
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- Foreign Language Learning
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- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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This grammar provides a synchronic grammatical description of Mauwake, a Papuan Trans-New Guinea (TNG) language of about 2000 speakers on the north coast of the Madang Province in Papua New Guinea. It is the first book-length treatment of the Mauwake language and the only published grammar of the Kumil subgroup to date. Relying on other existing published and unpublished grammars, the author shows how the language is similar to, or different from, related TNG languages especially in the Madang province. The grammar gives a brief introduction to the Mauwake people, their environment and their culture. Although the book mainly covers morphology and syntax, it also includes ashort treatment of the phonological system and the orthography. The description of the grammatical units proceeds from the words/morphology to the phrases, clauses, sentence types and clause combinations. The chapter on functional domains is the only one where the organization is based on meaning/function rather than structure. The longest chapter in the book is on morphology, with verbs taking the central stage. The final chapter deals with the pragmatic functions theme, topic and focus. 13 texts by native speakers, mostly recorded and transcribed but some originally written, are included in the Appendix with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses and a free translation. The theoretical approach used is that of Basic Linguistic Theory. Language typologists and professional Papuanist linguists are naturally one target audience for the grammar. But also two other possible, and important, audiences influenced especially the style the writing: well educated Mauwake speakers interested in their language, and those other Papua New Guineans who have some basic training in linguistics and are keen to explore their own languages.
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- Foreign Language Learning
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- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Moloko, a Chadic language spoken by about 10,000 speakers in northern Cameroon. The grammar was developed from hours and years that the authors spent at friends’ houses hearing and recording stories, hours spent listening to the tapes and transcribing the stories, then translating them and studying the language through them. Time was spent together and with others speaking the language and talking about it, translating resources and talking to Moloko people about them. Grammar and phonology discoveries were made in the office, in the fields while working, and at gatherings. In the process, the four authors have become more and more passionate about the Moloko language and are eager to share their knowledge about it with others.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
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- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Grammars Indo-Aryan languages -- Grammar Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay, a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversations between Papuan Malay speakers, recorded in the Sarmi area on the northeast coast of West Papua. Papuan Malay is the language of wider communication and the first or second language for an ever-increasing number of people of the area. While Papuan Malay is not officially recognized and therefore not used in formal government or educational settings or for religious preaching, it is used in all other domains, including unofficial use in formal settings, and, to some extent, in the public media. After a general introduction to the language, its setting, and history, this grammar discusses the following topics, building up from smaller grammatical constituents to larger ones: phonology, word formation, noun and prepositional phrases, verbal and nonverbal clauses, non-declarative clauses, and conjunctions and constituent combining. Of special interest to linguists, typologists, and Malay specialists are the following in-depth analyses and descriptions: affixation and its productivity across domains of language choice, reduplication and its gesamtbedeutung, personal pronouns and their adnominal uses, demonstratives and locatives and their extended uses, and adnominal possessive relations and their non- canonical uses. This study provides a starting point for Papuan Malay language development efforts and a point of comparison for further studies on other Malay varieties.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
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- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focusing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns, adjectives and verbs, it also deals with other linguistic structures such as prosody, phonology, phrase types and clauses. Furthermore, it provides an introduction to the language and its speakers, and an outline of a preliminary Pite Saami orthography. An extensive annotated spoken-language corpus collected over the course of five years forms the empirical foundation for this description, and each example includes a specific reference to the corpus in order to facilitate verification of claims made on the data. Descriptions are presented for a general linguistics audience and without attempting to support a specific theoretical approach, but this book should be equally useful for scholars of Uralic linguistics, typologists, and even learners of Pite Saami.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter, the grammar deals with phonology, word classes, the noun phrase, possession, the verb phrase, verbal and nonverbal clauses, mood and negation, and clause combinations. The phonology of Rapa Nui reveals certain issues of typological interest, such as the existence of strict conditions on the phonological shape of words, word-final devoicing, and reduplication patterns motivated by metrical constraints. For Polynesian languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs in the lexicon has often been denied; in this grammar it is argued that this distinction is needed for Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui has sometimes been characterised as an ergative language; this grammar shows that it is unambiguously accusative. Subject and object marking depend on an interplay of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Other distinctive features of the language include the existence of a ‘neutral’ aspect marker, a serial verb construction, the emergence of copula verbs, a possessive-relative construction, and a tendency to maximise the use of the nominal domain. Rapa Nui’s relationship to the other Polynesian languages is a recurring theme in this grammar; the relationship to Tahitian (which has profoundly influenced Rapa Nui) especially deserves attention. The grammar is supplemented with a number of interlinear texts, two maps and a subject index.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Grammars Rapanui language -- Grammar Textbooks
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- e-book
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This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in eastern Nepal, in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13,000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues, as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological, morphological, syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking, argument structure, transitivity, complex predication, grammatical relations, clause linkage, nominalization, and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible, the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.
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- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Grammars Yakha language Kiranti languages Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language.
- Subjects:
- Foreign Language Learning
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Grammars Textbooks
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- e-book
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"A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources. This guide aims to both inspire and equip more faculty to follow in these open pedagogy pioneers' tracks in making open textbooks with students. This is a first edition, compiled by Rebus Community, and we welcome feedback and ideas to expand the text"--BC Campus website.
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- Educational Resources
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Teaching -- Aids devices
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- e-book
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In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Mental arithmetic Mental calculators
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- Video
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Video
Following the overview and demonstration of the PRT in the first session, the second session will give participants the opportunity to use the PRT to conduct programme review. Participants will first identify appropriate analyses to address specific review questions and use the PRT to conduct these analyses and discuss the results and how to translate them into actions for quality improvement.
Event Date: 06/10/2020
Facilitator(s): Christine Armatas(EDC), Dick Chan (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Learning Analytics
- Keywords:
- Education -- Evaluation Educational technology Education -- Data processing Academic achievement -- Evaluation
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- Video
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PolyU AAE students guide you through the flight procedures of an A320 Flight Stimulator.
- Subjects:
- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
- Keywords:
- Flight training -- Simulation methods Flight simulators
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- Video
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Others
In this interactive object, learners review case studies and identify complex arterial blood gases.
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Blood gases Blood vessels
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Learners read an introduction to arterial blood gasses and then identify uncompensated ABGs.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Human Biology, and Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Blood gases
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
An interactive online learning activity (tutorial) for nurses and healthcare personnel. ** Skip registration and click on the 'Start here' link (below the registration section), if you are not interested in the credits.
- Subjects:
- Nursing
- Keywords:
- Nursing -- Study teaching Allied health personnel -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
This eBook was written as the sequel to the eBook titled DC Circuits, which was written in 2016 by Chad Davis. This eBook covers Alternating Current (AC) circuit theory as well as a brief introduction of electronics. It is broken up into seven modules. Module 1 covers the basic theory of AC signals. Since only DC sources are used in the first eBook, details of AC signals such as sinusoidal waveforms (or sine waves), square waves, and triangle waves are provided. Module 2, titled AC Circuits Math Background, covers the mathematics background needed for solving AC circuit problems. The background material in Modules 1 and 2 are combined in Module 3 to solve circuits with AC sources that include resistors, inductors, and capacitors (RLC circuits).
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- Electrical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Electric circuits -- Alternating current Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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Others
This provides all the resources to help you prepare for the Applied Knowledge, Applied Skills and Strategic Professional exams.
- Course related:
- AF5141 Corporate Financial Accounting
- Subjects:
- Accounting
- Keywords:
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (Great Britain) Accounting -- Examinations
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- Others
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MOOC
AI is not only for engineers. If you want your organization to become better at using AI, this is the course to tell everyone--especially your non-technical colleagues--to take. In this course, you will learn: - The meaning behind common AI terminology, including neural networks, machine learning, deep learning, and data science - What AI realistically can--and cannot--do - How to spot opportunities to apply AI to problems in your own organization - What it feels like to build machine learning and data science projects - How to work with an AI team and build an AI strategy in your company - How to navigate ethical and societal discussions surrounding AI
- Subjects:
- Computing
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
AMBOSS was founded by doctors, for doctors, in 2012. A group of young residents became frustrated by the limitations of the medical education system: the multitude of disconnected resources available led to more time spent researching topics than mastering them. They took matters into their own hands and together completely reshaped the path to becoming a physician. They created AMBOSS, a digital medical resource that could single-handedly support students in the classroom as well as later on as a clinical companion.
- Course related:
- RS2480 Clinical Sciences in Musculoskeletal Conditions, RS2040 Functional Anatomy, HSS2011 Human Anatomy, and RS3410 Enabling Occupation: Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
- Keywords:
- Medicine
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
AO Surgery Reference is a resource for the management of fractures, based on current clinical principles, practices and available evidence.
- Course related:
- RS3410 Enabling Occupation: Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Keywords:
- Fracturess -- Treatment Fractures Bones -- Wounds injuries
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
This text comprises a three–text series on Calculus. The first part covers material taught in many “Calc 1” courses: limits, derivatives, and the basics of integration, found in Chapters 1 through 6.1. The second text covers material often taught in “Calc 2:” integration and its applications, along with an introduction to sequences, series and Taylor Polynomials, found in Chapters 5 through 8. The third text covers topics common in “Calc 3” or “multivariable calc:” parametric equations, polar coordinates, vector–valued functions, and functions of more than one variable, found in Chapters 9 through 14. More information, including free downloads of .pdf versions of the text, is available at www.apexcalculus.com.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Calculus Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This text was written as a prequel to the APEXCalculus series, a three–volume series on Calculus. This text is not intended to fully prepare students with all of the mathematical knowledge they need to tackle Calculus, rather it is designed to review mathematical concepts that are often stumbling blocks in the Calculus sequence. It starts basic and builds to more complex topics. This text is written so that each section and topic largely stands on its own, making it a good resource for students in Calculus who are struggling with the supporting mathemathics found in Calculus courses. The topics were chosen based on experience; several instructors in the Applied Mathemathics Department at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) compiled a list of topics that Calculus students commonly struggle with, giving the focus of this text. This allows for a more focused approach; at first glance one of the obvious differences from a standard Pre-Calculus text is its size.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Precalculus Trigonometry Algebra Textbooks
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- e-book
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This lecutre is about the design and an excellent of business processes. Established frameworks from the American Productivity and Quality Council (APQC) is introduced.
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- Management
- Keywords:
- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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- Video
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Others
4RealSim serves its customers by providing Dassault Systemes’ SIMULIA products (Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpack, XFLOW), VCollab and HyperSizer.
4RealSim offers high-quality Finite Element engineering services to assess, validate and optimize the response of products, assemblies and processes.
4RealSim offers training and mentoring to learn the analysis tools and improve FEA methodologies. Trainings are available online or organized in class rooms.
4RealSim offers customer-tailored and regulatory compliant Computer Modelling & Simulation services for the life-science and medical-device industry.
- Subjects:
- Business Information Technology and Computing
- Keywords:
- Abaqus (Electronic resource) Finite element method
- Resource Type:
- Others
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We're going to take apart a plastic anatomy model and see what we can find in the abdomen. We'll identify as many organs as we can, see how they fit into the abdomen relative to one another, working our way from anterior to posterior.
- Course related:
- HTI17102 Imaging Anatomy
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Organs (Anatomy) Abdomen
- Resource Type:
- Video
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e-book
Abnormal Psychology is an Open Education Resource written by Alexis Bridley, Ph.D. and Lee W. Daffin Jr., Ph.D. through Washington State University. The book tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 15 modules. This journey starts by discussing what abnormal behavior is by attempting to understand what normal behavior is. Models of abnormal psychology and clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment are then discussed. With these three modules completed, the authors next explore several classes of mental disorders in 5 blocks. Block 1 covers mood, trauma and stressor related, and dissociative disorders. Block 2 covers anxiety, somatic symptom, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Block 3 covers eating and substance-related and addictive disorders. Block 4 tackles schizophrenia spectrum and personality disorders. Finally, Block 5 investigates neurocognitive disorders and then ends with a discussion of contemporary issues in psychopathology. Disorders are covered by discussing their clinical presentation and DSM Criteria, epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, and treatment options.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Psychology, Social Work and Human Services, and Nursing
- Keywords:
- Schizophrenia Psychology Pathological Psychiatry Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This writer's reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising, including how to build a strong thesis, how to peer review a fellow student's work, and a handy checklist for revision, before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing. Included for those students who need writing help at the most basic level are comprehensive sections on sentence style and grammar, verbs, nouns and other tenets of basic grammar. Finally, the sections on research and citation should help any student find solid evidence for their school work and cite it correctly, as well as encouraging an understanding of why citation is so important in the first place. This is a guide that is useful to writing students of all levels, either as a direct teaching tool or a simple reference.
- Subjects:
- English Language and Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Report writing Textbooks Authorship English language -- Rhetoric
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- e-book
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Others
Learners view illustrations showing the direct dependence of the volume of a gas on temperature and consider the relationship between the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Temperature Low temperatures
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Learn more about finding a journal for publication, open access, predatory journals, your copyright as an author, social media in academics, enhancing your visbility, networking, tools for sharing and co-writing or research data management.
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e-book
Listening in English at university can be a challenge for many students. Students may find it hard to cope with the speed of lecturers, dealing with technical vocabulary, or being able to concentrate on the lecture for long periods of time. By reading thisguide and completing the activities, you will be able to pinpoint which listening challenges affect you,and how to deal with them. Better academic listening can lead to more understanding in lectures and a more fulfilling learning experience at university.
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- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language Listening comprehension
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- e-book
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Others
The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing organised according to the main sections of a research paper or dissertation (see the top menu ). Other phrases are listed under the more general communicative functions of academic writing (see the menu on the left). The resource should be particularly useful for writers who need to report their research work.The phrases, and the headings under which they are listed, can be used simply to assist you in thinking about the content and organisation of your own writing, or the phrases can be incorporated into your writing where this is appropriate. In most cases, a certain amount of creativity and adaptation will be necessary when a phrase is used.The items in the Academic Phrasebank are mostly content neutral and generic in nature; in using them, therefore, you are not stealing other people’s ideas and this does not constitute plagiarism. For some of the entries, specific content words have been included for illustrative purposes, and these should be substituted when the phrases are used.The resource was designed primarily for academic and scientific writers who are non-native speakers of English. However, native speaker writers may still find much of the material helpful. In fact, recent data suggest that the majority of users are native speakers of English.
- Course related:
- ELC6002 Thesis Writing for Research Students
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Academic writing English language -- Terms phrases
- Resource Type:
- Others
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MOOC
The self-paced online course is for students to self-study, practise and improve the academic English that they need for their university studies. Topics include appropriate academic style, correct referencing conventions, writing university levels essays and reports, delivering academic presentations and participating in discussions. Created by the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Keywords:
- Academic writing English language -- Study teaching
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
About 9% of the global population experiences a kind of visual impairment, so can we do anything to improve their online experience? In this useful article, you’ll learn more about how website design affects visually impaired individuals and what we can do to make it better.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Computer drawing Adobe Illustrator (Computer file)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. This text was developed to help you develop these skills.
- Subjects:
- Accounting
- Keywords:
- Accounting Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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Video
Learners view several movie clips that demonstrate the use of an indicator to follow the neutralization reaction that occurs when an acid and a base are mixed. Students test their knowledge in a series of questions. Immediate feedback is given.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Acids Chemical reactions Bases (Chemistry)
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- Video
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Video
Students read about how acid/base balance affects a person's health. This activity includes animation.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Acid-base imbalances
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
Students read and test themselves on the conditions that cause specific acid/base imbalances.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Acid-base imbalances
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
Students read different definitions of "acids" and "bases." In an interactive exercise, they identify if a substance is an acid or a base.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Acids Bases (Chemistry)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Courseware
The course treats the following topics: - Relevant physical oceanography - Elements of marine geology (seafloor topography, acoustical properties of sediments and rocks) - Underwater sound propagation (ray acoustics, ocean noise) - Interaction of sound with the seafloor (reflection, scattering) - Principles of sonar (beamforming) - Underwater acoustic mapping systems (single beam echo sounding, multi-beam echo sounding, sidescan sonar) - Data analysis (refraction corrections, digital terrain modelling) - Applications (hydrographic survey planning and navigation, coastal engineering) - Current and future developments.
- Subjects:
- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
- Keywords:
- Underwater acoustics -- Remote sensing Ocean bottom Ocean bottom -- Remote sensing
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- Courseware
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e-book
This online resource provides user with comprehensive information on the healthy diet in Hong Kong.
- Course related:
- SN403 Community Health Nursing
- Subjects:
- Health and Social Sciences
- Keywords:
- Diet Health promotion Exercise
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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e-book
Active Calculus is different from most existing calculus texts in at least the following ways: the text is freely readable online in HTML format and is also available for in PDF; in the electronic format, graphics are in full color and there are live links to java applets; version 2.0 now contains WeBWorK exercises in each chapter, which are fully interactive in the HTML format and included in print in the PDF; the text is open source, and interested users can gain access to the original source files on GitHub; the style of the text requires students to be active learners — there are very few worked examples in the text, with there instead being 3-4 activities per section that engage students in connecting ideas, solving problems, and developing understanding of key calculus concepts; each section begins with motivating questions, a brief introduction, and a preview activity, all of which are designed to be read and completed prior to class; following the WeBWorK exercises in each section, there are several challenging problems that require students to connect key ideas and write to communicate their understanding.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Calculus Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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e-book
Active Calculus Multivariable is the continuation of Active Calculus to multivariable functions. The Active Calculus texts are different from most existing calculus texts in at least the following ways: the texts are free for download by students and instructors in .pdf format; in the electronic format, graphics are in full color and there are live html links to java applets; the texts are open source, and interested instructors can gain access to the original source files upon request; the style of the texts requires students to be active learners — there are very few worked examples in the texts, with there instead being 3-4 activities per section that engage students in connecting ideas, solving problems, and developing understanding of key calculus concepts; each section begins with motivating questions, a brief introduction, and a preview activity, all of which are designed to be read and completed prior to class; the exercises are few in number and challenging in nature.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Calculus Functional analysis Textbooks
- Resource Type:
- e-book