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This mini-lecture introduces the future battery. The Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles (FAST) and the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC) organized the mini-lecture series for more than three years. The lectures aim to enrich students' knowledge in creative perspectives and arouse their interest in Sciences, Fashion and Textiles. In view of the unpredictable development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming mini-lecture Series will be switched from face-to-face mode to online mode.
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- Physics and Chemistry
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- Storage batteries
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What if we looked at Parkinson's as an neurological electrical problem? Brain researcher Eleftheria Pissadaki and her team study dopamine neurons, the neurons that selectively die during Parkinson's. They discovered that the bigger a neuron is, the more vulnerable it becomes because it simply requires more energy. This new insight is reframing the disease -- and by "finding the fuse box for each neuron" and figuring out how much energy it needs, may help us neuroprotect our brain cells.
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- Health Sciences and Mathematics and Statistics
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- Brain -- Diseases -- Research Brain -- Mathematical models
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In this screencast you'll identify and write assertive "I" statements that focus on BCF (behavior, consequences, and feelings).
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- Management
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- Conflict management
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In this workshop, we will introduce a novel active-learning rewards-based (ALRB) approach supported by a prototype system to motivate students to be more active learners. We will describe how rubrics are assigned to different active learning pedagogies to reward students for their active engagement. The ALRB approach will be demonstrated with a supporting system and rewards will be given to the audience to show how instructors can use the ALRB approach in any face-to-face, hybrid or purely virtual environment.
Event Date: 20/10/2022
Presenter: Harbutt, Darren
Facilitator(s): Ting, Fridolin; Sze, Raymond
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- Lesson Design, Student Engagement, and Good Practices
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- Effective teaching Active learning Web-based instruction
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The Palace Museum houses a collection of national treasures, which are not only rare and precious artworks, but also serve as vehicles for Chinese philosophy and culture. Since its establishment, the Palace Museum has taken preserving and carrying the Chinese cultural heritage forward as its core mission. In the past few decades, the Palace Museum has endeavoured to activate its collection and make the museum more connected and relevant to the world beyond the museum walls. As a bridge between the past and the present, China and the world, the Hong Kong Palace Museum is committed to the study and appreciation of Chinese art and culture. With a Hong Kong perspective and a global vision, the Museum interprets the Palace Museum’s collection and its culture and presents the essence of Chinese culture and values to a global audience, while advancing dialogue and mutual learning among world civilizations. In this PolyU 85th Anniversary Public Lecture, we are honored to have Dr Louis Ng Chi-wa, the first Director of Hong Kong Palace Museum, presents a public lecture, A New Vision for Carrying the Traditional Culture Forward. We sincerely invite you to embark on a journey exploring cultural heritage through the lecture.
故宮的文物收藏是國之重寶,不僅是藝術珍玩,還有以器明道的文化意義。故宮博物院自成立以來,一直以傳承中華文化為使命。新時代的故宮致力把文物活起來,從館舍天地走向大千世界。香港故宮繼往開來,定位於連繫古今,融通中外,以香港角度,結合環球視野,詮釋故宮文物和文化。香港故宮並致力走向世界,宣揚中國文化的普世價值,推動文化對話和文明互鑑。理大八十五周年校慶公開講座有幸邀請香港故宮文化博物館館長吳志華博士與大家分享「文化傳承的新視野」,一起展開文化傳承之旅。
Event Date: 22.10.2022
- Keywords:
- Art Chinese Historic preservation Civilization Cultural property
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Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one bribe at a time.
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- Society and Culture and Poltiical Science
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- Corruption -- Prevention
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In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, he noticed a problem: strict funding regulations meant that he could only operate on people with specific diseases, leaving many others without resources for treatment. In this passionate talk, Bastawrous calls for a new health care funding model that's flexible and ambitious -- to deliver better health to everyone, whatever their needs are.
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- Management of Health Care Services
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- Health services administration Poor -- Medical care -- Finance
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There's no shortage of resources to help people change their health behaviors -- but far too often, these resources aren't accessible in underserved communities, says physician Priscilla Pemu. Enter "culturally congruent coaching," a program Pemu and her team developed to help patients with chronic diseases monitor their health with the assistance of a coach from their community. Learn more about how this approach transcends language and cultural barriers -- and could potentially transform health care in America.
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- Management of Health Care Services and Health Sciences
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- Chronically-ill -- Services for Health coaches
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A Primer for Computational Biology aims to provide life scientists and students the skills necessary for research in a data-rich world. The text covers accessing and using remote servers via the command-line, writing programs and pipelines for data analysis, and provides useful vocabulary for interdisciplinary work. The book is broken into three parts: Introduction to Unix/Linux: The command-line is the “natural environment” of scientific computing, and this part covers a wide range of topics, including logging in, working with files and directories, installing programs and writing scripts, and the powerful “pipe” operator for file and data manipulation. Programming in Python: Python is both a premier language for learning and a common choice in scientific software development. This part covers the basic concepts in programming (data types, if-statements and loops, functions) via examples of DNA-sequence analysis. This part also covers more complex subjects in software development such as objects and classes, modules, and APIs. Programming in R: The R language specializes in statistical data analysis, and is also quite useful for visualizing large datasets. This third part covers the basics of R as a programming language (data types, if-statements, functions, loops and when to use them) as well as techniques for large-scale, multi-test analyses. Other topics include S3 classes and data visualization with ggplot2.
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- Biology
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- Computational biology Textbooks
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- e-book
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This is a short introduction to the fundamentals of real analysis. Although the prerequisites are few, I have written the text assuming the reader has the level of mathematical maturity of one who has completed the standard sequence of calculus courses, has had some exposure to the ideas of mathematical proof (including induction), and has an acquaintance with such basic ideas as equivalence relations and the elementary algebraic properties of the integers.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
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- Mathematical analysis Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
As you read A Primer on Sustainable Business, we challenge you to not think of sustainability as a program, an initiative, or an activity. Rather, sustainability is a mind-set, a philosophy, and worldview. Throughout each chapter, you are challenged to alter the way you view your job, the workplace, the business, and the world. Whether you are an executive, an entrepreneur, or an employee, A Primer on Sustainable Business will help you understand the big picture of what it means to be a sustainable business and will give you the information you need to begin your journey toward sustainability.
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- Management
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- Corporations -- Environmental aspects Sustainability Textbooks
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- e-book
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This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences, covering subjects such as education, sociology, business, nursing. If you area qualitative researcher who needs to venture into the world of numbers, or a student instructed to undertake a quantitative research project despite a hatred for maths, then this booklet should be a real help.
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- Social Sciences and Statistics and Research Methods
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- Social sciences -- Research Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This is a guidebook where we discuss art and music in the context of popular culture, so chances are you will see relationships between art and music and what you are learning and the way you live, to connect them to your own experience.
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- Performing Arts and Visual Arts
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- Popular culture Art Modern Music History
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- e-book
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The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward; a consideration of how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer's motives; and advice on how to bring the text to completion and "how to manage the work and one's own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively."
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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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A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son, a History professor, on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California, Davis.
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- English Language
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- Humanities Social sciences Textbooks Academic writing
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- e-book
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Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time.
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- Health Sciences and Biology
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- Medicial informatics Big data Public health
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- Video
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e-book
A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology is written entirely by students enrolled in the Keene State College Tropical Marine Biology course taught by Dr. Karen Cangialosi.Our goal was to investigate three main aspects of tropical marine biology: understanding the system, identifying problems, and evaluating solutions. Each of the sections contains chapters that utilize openly licensed material and images, and are rich with hyperlinks to other sources. Some of the most pressing tropical marine ecosystem issues are broken up into five sections: Coral Reefs and Diversity, Common Fishes to the Coral Reef, Environmental Threats, Reef Conservation, and Major Marine Phyla. These sections are not mutually exclusive; repetition in some content between chapters is intentional as we expect that users may not read the whole book.
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- Biology
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- Textbooks Marine biology
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- e-book
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This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These 13 years, however, cover the period during which smart phones and tablets became commonplace, during which the Internet of Things started replacing the Semantic Web, during which NoSQL databases made their way out of the research labs and into everyday development shops, during which we collectively started moving IT functions and services into ‘the cloud,’ and during which computing performance doubled a few times, yet again. During this same period, TeachEngineering’s user base grew from a few hundred to more than 3 million users annually, its collection size quadrupled, it went through several user interface renewals, and significant functionality was added while having an exemplary service record, and it enjoyed continued financial support from its sponsors. In this monograph we provide a side-by-side of this rebuild. We lay out the choices made in the old architecture —we refer to it as TE 1.0— and compare and contrast them with the choices made for TE 2.0. We explain why both the 1.0 and 2.0 choices were made and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.
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- Computing
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- Web site development Web sites -- Design Textbooks
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- e-book
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Others
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.
- Subjects:
- Sociology
- Keywords:
- Religions Symbolic interactionism
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- Others
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e-book
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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Others
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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e-book
"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.
- Subjects:
- Computing and Mechanical Engineering
- Keywords:
- 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
- Subjects:
- 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
- Subjects:
- Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence College teaching Artificial intelligence -- Educational applications
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- Video
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e-book
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.
- 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 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.
- 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 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
- Keywords:
- 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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e-book
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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e-book
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.
- Subjects:
- 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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e-book
"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.
- Subjects:
- 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.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Mental arithmetic Mental calculators
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- Video
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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.
- Subjects:
- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Others
The Hotel X concert package promotion utilized AI digital salesman live streaming to attract customers and generate sales. The hotel focused on creating unique and attractive packages, leveraging its convenient location near the concert venue. The promotion was carried out on platforms such as Xiyou and Fliggy, utilizing AI digital salespersons for live streaming. The outcome was a sold-out package, increased platform browsing, and significant downloads on Fliggy. The hotel gained opportunities, revenues, and improved brand recognition. The implications include the need to embrace live streaming as an efficient marketing channel and to collaborate with other entities for unique offerings. Emotional connections and an allocation of resources are important considerations in this evolving landscape.
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- Marketing and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hotels -- Marketing Hospitality industry -- Marketing
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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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Video
This lecutre is about the design and an excellent of business processes. Established frameworks from the American Productivity and Quality Council (APQC) is introduced.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
- Resource Type:
- 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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Video
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.
- Subjects:
- 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
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Video
In both face-to-face and online lectures, research shows positive results when active learning techniques are applied, and technology has long been used as a tool to facilitate the process. In this workshop we consider how to engage your learners with interactive approaches, leveraging technologies and tools such as Zoom, Mentimeter, uReply, PearDeck and MURAL.
Event Date: 14/3/2022
Facilitator(s): Kevin Chan (APSS), Mary Cheng (ELC), Darren Harbutt (EDC), Eric Ho (ELC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Motivation in education Computer-assisted instruction Engagement (Philosophy)
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- Video
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Video
This webinar looks at different techniques and tools you can use to get students learning actively online, in both synchronous and asynchronous settings.
Event Date: 17/03/2020
Facilitator(s): Adam Forrester (ELC), Darren Harbutt (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Engagement (Philosophy) Motivation in education Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
In this webinar we look at how learners can continue to learn actively in an online environment. We consider how to engage students before, during and after a live online session, covering synchronous and asynchronous active learning.
Event Date: 09/09/2020
Facilitator(s): Adam Forrester (ELC), Darren Harbutt (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement
- Keywords:
- Educational technology Instructional systems Computer-assisted instruction Students -- Attitudes
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
- Subjects:
- Advertising Design
- Keywords:
- Canada Databases Advertising United States
- Resource Type:
- Others
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MOOC
To survive in today’s constantly changing business landscape requires being comfortable in uncertainty. Adaptability is what allows people and businesses to solve problems, overcome challenges and move back from the edge of attrition to the more stable ground of relevance. Adaptability is everything. — Jeff Boss, Forbes
Adaptability refers to your ability change your actions, course, or approach in order to suit different conditions or environments. Adaptability implies a sense of personal choice, of purposefully navigating—rather than being driven by—changing circumstances.
Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. Resilience gives you the ability to bounce forward with new insights and learning you can carry into the future.
Both adaptability and resilience include the ability to assess an evolving situation from multiple perspectives, to shift thinking and viewpoint, and to choose the best response. Adaptable people flourish amidst chaos while inflexible people flounder. Adapters find openings in situations where others only see closure. This 4-module course will give you knowledge and tools to become more adaptable and resilient in your workplace and in your life.
- Keywords:
- Adaptability (Psychology) Resilience (Personality trait) Change (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Video
What is adaptability? Adaptability is a skill. It's feeling okay when you have to change how you think or act. To create a plan to improve your skills for learning, work and life, visit upskillsforwork.ca
- Keywords:
- Change (Psychology) Adaptability (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Learn how to make your teaching videos more engaging and interactive by adding elements such as quizzes, discussions, other video sources and documents for your learners.
Event Date: 27/02/2020
Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel (EDC), Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement and Educational Resources
- Keywords:
- Educational technology Video recordings -- Production direction -- Study teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Video
Learn how to make your teaching videos more engaging and interactive by adding elements such as quizzes, discussions, other video sources and documents for your learners.
Event Date: 12/10/2020
Facilitator(s): Mitesh Patel (EDC), Kai Pan Mark (EDC)
- Subjects:
- Student Engagement and Educational Resources
- Keywords:
- Educational technology Video recordings -- Production direction -- Study teaching Web-based instruction
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
The Aden Select Shenzhen Taizi Hotel, formerly known as the Shenzhen Taizi Hotel, was established in 1983 and recently underwent an upgrade and renovation. It is now managed by Shenzhen China Merchants Aden Hotel and Apartment Management Co., Ltd. It is located in Shekou, Shenzhen, with easy access to transportation and popular tourist attractions. The hotel has 107 rooms with a coastal and retro industrial theme. China Merchants Aden's brand "Aden" has been successful in the hotel industry, providing high-quality service to high-end guests. The aim is to create a comforting experience for travelers and make life on the road enjoyable.
- Subjects:
- Marketing and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hotels -- Marketing Hospitality industry -- Marketing
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Courseware
This is an open course in adjective clauses of English grammar. It starts with a lesson on the basics of adjectives and then moves to a lesson on the basics of clauses. Then we put those things together and learn about adjective clauses. Finally, we learn how to reduce an adjective clause to make an adjective phrase. If you already understand adjectives and clauses, you can skip those topics, but they also may be useful to review before starting the more difficult material.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Grammar
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- Courseware
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Others
We use Artificial Intelligence, Digital Finger Printing and Profiling to track your competitors' every move across all platforms including TV, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Digital, Mobile and Social Media. Be it a corporate campaign, new product launch, promotional messages, event announcement, to just a casual greeting, we alert you the minute it's out there so you can respond immediately.
- Subjects:
- Advertising Design and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Advertising campaigns Commercial art Advertising
- Resource Type:
- Others
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MOOC
Learn Adobe Illustrator from scratch, including typography, infographics, logo design and more. In this course, you will learn about (1) How to use layers (2) When and why to use a specific tool (3) Best practices when designing infographics (4) Creative techniques to fully develop your understanding of the Adobe Illustrator tools and their possibilities
- Course related:
- ITC3076E Fashion Shoe Design and ITC3081D Advanced Apparel Techniques and Practice
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Adobe Illustrator (Computer file) Computer drawing -- Computer programs Computer graphics -- Software
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
Ads of the World is one of the world's largest advertising archive and community. The front page features fresh creative tv, print, outdoor, online, dm and ambient advertisements from around the world.
- Subjects:
- Advertising Design
- Keywords:
- Commercial art Advertising Advertising campaigns
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with coverage of legal and regulatory issues that are more technical than the topics in the authors' Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment. Appropriate for students who have already taken an introductory Legal Environment or Business Law course, the text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with which they are already familiar with their clear, concise and readable style. Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and various aspects of property law. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
- Subjects:
- Law and Legislation
- Keywords:
- Commercial law United States Textbooks
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- e-book
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Others
Know everything about RGB and CMYK but want to learn more? This article helps you understand other color models available to designers. You’ll learn how to and when to use them, how to manage colors, and what happens when you convert color spaces.
- Subjects:
- Design Elements
- Keywords:
- Color in design People with visual disabilities Barrier-free design
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- Others
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Courseware
This course introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including strategies for presenting to a hostile audience, running effective and productive meetings, active listening, and contributing to group decision-making. There are team-run classes on chosen communication topics, and an individual analysis of leadership qualities and characteristics. Students deliver an oral presentation and an executive summary, both aimed at a business audience.
- Subjects:
- Communication
- Keywords:
- Interpersonal communication Business communication
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- Courseware
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e-book
This book has been created to provide a framework for building your skills in writing and critical thinking. It provides access to published samples from professional authors along with essay drafts from ESL students who have polished their skills in their respective writing courses. The themes in the readings will give you a variety of topics to discuss with your classmates, which may inspire your own deeper thinking and writing. Overall, we hope that as you proceed through these chapters, you will build confidence and develop your voice in the classroom and beyond. Welcome to the world of academic writing!
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- English language -- Composition exercises Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric
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- e-book
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Courseware
This graduate-level course focuses on current research topics in computational complexity theory. Topics include: Nondeterministic, alternating, probabilistic, and parallel computation models; Boolean circuits; Complexity classes and complete sets; The polynomial-time hierarchy; Interactive proof systems; Relativization; Definitions of randomness; Pseudo-randomness and derandomizations;Interactive proof systems and probabilistically checkable proofs.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Computational complexity
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- Courseware
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PDF Video Website
Creativity is important in nearly every facet of life. Advances in neuro-science, computing and psychology, along with developments in other domains and cross-disciplinary areas have resulted in ever increasing understanding of creativity. This module will explore some advanced approaches to creativity such as the use of analogy and metaphor, various thinking styles and the role of artificial intelligence. A framework called the creativity diamond is used to guide the selection of approach to creativity relevant to your project or activity.
- Keywords:
- Creative ability Analogy Creative thinking Metaphor Artificial intelligence
- Resource Type:
- PDF, Video, and Website
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Courseware
This course introduces the basic components of an airframe structure and discusses their use and limitations. The realities of composite design such as the effect of material scatter, environmental knockdowns, and damage knockdowns are discussed and guidelines accounting for these effects and leading to robust designs are presented. The resulting design constraints and predictive tools are applied to real-life design problems in composite structures. A brief revision of lamination theory and failure criteria leads into the development of analytical solutions for typical failure modes for monolithic skins (layup strength, buckling under combined loads and for a variety of boundary conditions) and stiffeners (strength, column buckling under a variety of loads and boundary conditions, local buckling or crippling for one-edge and no-edge-free conditions). These are then combined into stiffened composite structures where additional failure modes such as skin-stiffener separation are considered. Analogous treatment of sandwich skins examines buckling, wrinkling, crimping, intra-cellular buckling failure modes. Once the basic analysis and design techniques have been presented, typical designs (e.g. flange layup, stiffness, taper requirements) are presented and a series of design guidelines (stiffness mismatch minimization, symmetric and balanced layups, 10% rule, etc.) addressing layup and geometry are discussed. On the metal side, the corresponding design practices and analysis methods are presented for the more important failure modes (buckling, crippling) and comparisons to composite designs are made. A design problem is given in the end as an application of the material in this Part of the course.
- Subjects:
- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
- Keywords:
- Composite construction Airframes
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- Courseware
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Courseware
This course will focus for a large part on MOSFET and CMOS, but also on heterojunction BJT, and photonic devices.First non-ideal characteristics of MOSFETs will be discussed, like channel-length modulation and short-channel effects. We will also pay attention to threshold voltage modification by varying the dopant concentration. Further, MOS scaling will be discussed. A combination of an n-channel and p-channel MOSFET is used for CMOS devices that form the basis for current digital technology. The operation of a CMOS inverter will be explained. We will explain in more detail how the transfer characteristics relate to the CMOS design.
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MOOC
This course covers the fundamentals of advanced fluid mechanics: including its connections to continuum mechanics more broadly, hydrostatics, buoyancy and rigid body accelerations, inviscid flow, and the application of Bernoulli’s theorems, as well as applications of control volume analysis for more complex fluid flow problems of engineering interest. This course features lecture and demo videos, lecture concept checks, practice problems, and extensive problem sets.
This course is the first of a three-course sequence in incompressible fluid mechanics: Advanced Fluid Mechanics: Fundamentals, Advanced Fluid Mechanics: The Navier-Stokes Equations for Viscous Flows, and Advanced Fluid Mechanics: Potential Flows, Lift, Circulation & Boundary Layers. The series is based on material in MIT’s class 2.25 Advanced Fluid Mechanics, one of the most popular first-year graduate classes in MIT’s Mechanical Engineering Department. This series is designed to help people gain the ability to apply the governing equations, the principles of dimensional analysis and scaling theory to develop physically-based, approximate models of complex fluid physics phenomena. People who complete these three consecutive courses will be able to apply their knowledge to analyze and break down complex problems they may encounter in industrial and academic research settings.
`The material is of relevance to engineers and scientists across a wide range of mechanical chemical and process industries who must understand, analyze and optimize flow processes and fluids handling problems. Applications are drawn from hydraulics, aero & hydrodynamics as well as the chemical process industries.
- Subjects:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Fluid mechanics
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- MOOC
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e-book
We hope readers will take away three ideas from this book in addition to forming a foundationof statistical thinking and methods. (1) Statistics is an applied field with a wide range of practical applications. (2) You don't have to be a math guru to learn from real, interesting data. (3) Data are messy, and statistical tools are imperfect. But, when you understand the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, you can use them to learn about the real world. Textbook overviewThe chapters of this book are as follows: 1. Data collection. Data structures, variables, and basic data collection techniques. 2. Summarizing data. Data summaries and graphics. 3. Probability. The basic principles of probability. 4. Distributions of random variables. Introduction to key distributions, and how the normal model applies to the sample mean and sample proportion. 5. Foundation for inference. General ideas for statistical inference in the context of estimating the population proportion. 6. Inference for categorical data. Inference for proportions using the normal and chisquare distributions. 7. Inference for numerical data. Inference for one or two sample means using the t distribution, and comparisons of many means using ANOVA. 8. Introduction to linear regression. An introduction to regression with two variables. Instructions are also provided in several sections for using Casio and TI calculators.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Statistics Textbooks
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- e-book
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Courseware
This seminar will be a scientific exploration of the food we eat and enjoy. Each week we shall have a scientific edible experiment that will explore a specific food topic. This will be a hands-on seminar with mandatory attendance of at least 85%. Topics include, but are not limited to, what makes a good experiment, cheese making, joys of tofu, food biochemistry, the science of spice, what is taste?
- Subjects:
- Chemistry and Food Science
- Keywords:
- Food -- Composition Chemical reactions Science -- Experiments
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- Courseware
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e-book
This new and expanded edition is intended to help candidates prepare for entrance examinations in mathematics and scientific subjects, including STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper). STEP is an examination used by Cambridge Colleges for conditional offers in mathematics. They are also used by some other UK universities and many mathematics departments recommend that their applicants practice on the past papers even if they do not take the examination. Advanced Problems in Mathematics bridges the gap between school and university mathematics, and prepares students for an undergraduate mathematics course. The questions analysed in this book are all based on past STEP questions and each question is followed by a comment and a full solution. The comments direct the reader’s attention to key points and put the question in its true mathematical context. The solutions point students to the methodology required to address advanced mathematical problems critically and independently.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Mathematics Algebra Textbooks Geometry
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In this course, you will learn advanced applications of Python for developing and customizing GIS software, designing user interfaces, solving complex geoprocessing tasks, and leveraging open source. The course consists of readings, walkthroughs, projects, quizzes, and discussions about advanced GIS programming concepts and techniques, and a final term project. Software covered in the course includes: Esri ArcGIS Pro/arcpy, Jupyter Notebook, Esri ArcGIS API for Python, QGIS, GDAL/OGR.
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Python (Computer program language) Geographic information systems
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Take your SQL skills to the next level.
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- Computing
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- Database management SQL (Computer program language)
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- Others
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Thermal conductivity, the Wiedemann-Franz law and the collision integral for electron-electron scattering. This course is about the electronic properties of materials and contains lectures about scattering, transport in metals, phonons and superconductivity.
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- Physics
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- Materials -- Electric properties Thermoelectricity Superconductivity
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This course is designed to introduce students who wish to specialize in stress analysis of thin-walled structures to more advanced topics such as the analysis of statically indeterminate structures, warping, constraint stresses, shear diffusion, and elements of plate bending.
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- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
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- Airframes Structural analysis (Engineering)
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This class is developed around the concept of disobedient interference within the existing models of production of space and knowledge. Modeling is the main modus operandi of the class as students will be required to make critical diagrammatic cuts through processes of production in different thematic registers – from chemistry, law and economy to art, architecture and urbanism – in order to investigate the sense of social responsibility and control over the complex agendas embedded in models that supports production of everyday objects and surroundings. Students will be encouraged to explore relations between material or immaterial aspects and agencies of production, whether they emerged as a consequence of connection of mind, body and space, or the infrastructural, geographical and ecological complexities of the Anthropocene. These production environments will be taken as modeling settings.
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- Space (Architecture) Architecture -- Philosophy
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In this engineering course, you will learn about the engineering principles that play an important role in all of these and more phenomena. You will learn about microbalances, radiation, convection, diffusion and more and their applications in everyday life. This advanced course is for engineers who want to refresh their knowledge, engineering students who are eager to learn more about heat/mass transport and for all who have fun in explaining the science of phenomena in nature.
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- Mechanical Engineering
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- Transport theory Energy transfer Heat -- Transmission Mass transfer
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- Courseware