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Imagine you were asked to invent something new. It could be whatever you want, made from anything you choose, in any shape or size. That kind of creative freedom sounds so liberating, doesn’t it? Or ... does it? if you're like most people you’d probably be paralyzed by this task. Why? Brandon Rodriguez explains how creative constraints actually help drive discovery and innovation.
- Keywords:
- Creative ability Inventions Problem solving
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- Video
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Consider the following sentence: "This statement is false." Is that true? If so, that would make the statement false. But if it's false, then the statement is true. This sentence creates an unsolvable paradox; if it's not true and it's not false– what is it? This question led a logician to a discovery that would change mathematics forever. Marcus du Sautoy digs into Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.
- Subjects:
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Incompleteness theorems Gödel's theorem
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- Video
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e-book
"It is important for students not only to get an appreciation and understanding of philosophy but also to be exposed to the very words and ideas of those who have shaped our thinking over the centuries. Accordingly, the title of this collection hints at the facts that these readings are from the original sources and that these philosophers were the originators of many of the issues we still discuss today. Major areas of philosophy covered here are: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Socio-Political Philosophy, and finally, Aesthetics"--BC Campus website.
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- Philosophy
- Keywords:
- Philosophical literature Philosophy European Textbooks
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- e-book
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Courseware
In the musculoskeletal system, the muscular and skeletal systems work together to support and move the body. The bones of the skeletal system serve to protect the body's organs, support the weight of the body, and give the body shape. The muscles of the muscular system attach to these bones, pulling on them to allow for movement of the body.
- Course related:
- HSS2011 Human Anatomy and ABCT2326 Human Physiology
- Subjects:
- Rehabilitation Sciences and Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Musculoskeletal system
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- Courseware
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Loretta Napoleoni details her rare opportunity to talk to the secretive Italian Red Brigades -- an experience that sparked a lifelong interest in terrorism. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at its complex economics, revealing a surprising connection between money laundering and the US Patriot Act.
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- Criminology and Economics
- Keywords:
- Money laundering Terrorism -- Economic aspects
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- Video
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MOOC
In today’s hotel sector an increasingly complex network of traditional and web based channels have to be managed to insure hotel success. Key questions include: how should you distribute over the web? What should you include on your brand.com website so people book through it? How can you maximise the potential of online travel agents (OTAs)? With the distribution environment both highly complex and constantly evolving, this course will give you comprehensive foundation of current industry practices to help jump start your career in this fascinating domain.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism
- Keywords:
- Hotel management Revenue management Hospitality industry -- Management Hospitality Industry -- Marketing
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- MOOC
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Euclid’s Elements was a collection of 13 books about geometry originally written circa 300 BC. Shortly after the advent of the printing press, many editions and translations have been created over the centuries. Byrne’s 1847 edition of the first six books stands out for its unique use of colorful illustrations to demonstrate proofs rather than using letters to label angles, edges, and shapes. His edition was one of the first books to be published with such detailed use of colors and combined with its detailed diagrams makes it an impressive feat of publishing for the times and it stands out even today as a work of art. This site is a reproduction of Byrne’s Euclid by Oliver Byrne from 1847 that pays tribute to the beautiful original design and includes enhancements such as interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
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- Euclid's Elements Elements (Euclid) Geometry
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- Others
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In this video, Prof. Christine Bruce explains that being information literate give you critical and strategic approaches to solve problems. It's you who need to decide using which type (e.g. research or non-research based) of information to support ideas, claims, and proposals that you propose in your research task.
- Keywords:
- Study skills Learning Information literacy
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- Video
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Learners will write effective business messages that incorporate a second-person point of view and focus on the benefit to the reader. This approach is often used to create positive messages, neutral messages, and inquiry messages in business settings.
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- Business writing
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- Others
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MOOC
explore key themes in wine history and learn about the methods and resources that historians use to understand the past.
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- Food and Beverage
- Keywords:
- Wine wine making Wine industry
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- MOOC
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Masterpieces of microengineering, kinesins are motorized transport machines that move cellular materials to their correct locations in the cell so they can perform their functions. Kinesins have two feet, or "globular heads," that literally walk, one foot over another. Known as the "workhorses of the cell," kinesins can carry cargo many times their own size.
- Course related:
- ABCT2103 Cell Biology
- Subjects:
- Biology
- Keywords:
- Kinesin
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- Video
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Written by five college reading and writing instructors, this interactive, multimedia text draws from decades of experience teaching students who are entering the college reading and writing environment for the very first time. It includes examples, exercises, and definitions for just about every reading- and writing-related topic students will encounter in their college courses.
- Subjects:
- English Language and Language and Languages
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- English language -- Style Reading (Higher education) Information literacy Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric Academic writing
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- e-book
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Australians call them "runners." The British know them as "trainers." Americans refer to them as "sneakers." Whatever you call them, these casual shoes are worn by billions of people around the world. Today, roughly 23 billion shoes are produced each year. So, how can we balance our love of sneakers with the need for sustainability? Angel Chang explores how shoe manufacturing impacts our planet.
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- Fashion and textiles
- Keywords:
- Footwear industry Footwear Sustainability
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- Video
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Others
This case discusses the Westin Pazhou Hotel's launch of a diamond card promotion for unlimited buffet dining throughout the year at the Canton Fair, along with Alibaba KOLs promoting it on multiple online platforms. They also developed a facial recognition system, which generated over 2 million in revenue and vital market feedback, opening up new ideas for promoting hotel industry catering products.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Hospitality industry -- Marketing Hotels -- Marketing Food service -- Marketing
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- Others
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e-book
In essay format, this textbook considers examples of various sub-categories of Geography in combination with five regions of the Western World.
- Subjects:
- Geography
- Keywords:
- America Latin America Europe Geography Australia Caribbean Area Textbooks
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- e-book
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Others
Learners read a brief description of the vertebral column and examine the distinctive features of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilation Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Spine -- Anatomy
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- Others
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Others
Learners play a vascular system "game" to identify the arteries, capillaries, and veins that make up the renal blood supply pathway. A score is given at the end of the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Kidneys -- Physiology Kidneys -- Blood vessels
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- Others
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Courseware
Does your business need a make-over? Are you unsure how to start? Having an innovative business model is key for a profitable business and growth. In this business and management course, you will learn how to design, test and implement new business models for sustainable success. This course introduces you to the main topics of business model innovation. You will learn what drives business model innovation and why it is valuable to you and your business. You will apply practical tools to (re)design and test a business model. Be inspired by real-life business model examples from fellow entrepreneurs and learn from leading experts who design business model innovations. By the end of this course, you will be able to structure your thinking and communicate your business model ideas and learn how to improve your own business.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Business planning Strategic planning Industrial management
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- Courseware
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In this screencast, learners examine the function and location of the motor neurons and the damage that can result when they are injured.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabilitation Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Motor neurons Brain -- Anatomy
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- Video
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Others
Learners examine the location, structure, and function of the unipolar and multipolar neurons.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Neuroanatomy Neurons
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- Others
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e-book
This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors, and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics research.
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages and Computing
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Orthography spelling Unicode (Computer character set) Textbooks
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- e-book
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Origami, which literally translates to "folding paper," is a Japanese practice dating back to at least the 17th century. In origami, a single, traditionally square sheet of paper can be transformed into almost any shape, purely by folding. The same simple concepts yield everything from a paper crane with about 20 steps, to a dragon with over 1,000 steps. Evan Zodl explores the ancient art form.
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- Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Origami -- Mathematics
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- Video
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Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.
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- Physics
- Keywords:
- Turbulence Starry night (Gogh Vincent van)
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- Video
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Others
The world of design is extensive. Learn the most important terms that you need to navigate your design career. This article touches on misused terms and explains some important typesetting terminology.
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- Typography and Design Elements
- Keywords:
- Type type-founding Printing Graphic design (Typography)
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- Others
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Others
Keeping an organized workspace is essential if you are working in Adobe Illustrator. This article is all about the Swatches panel. You’ll learn everything from adding swatches to handling pattern swatches.
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- Design Elements
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- Color in design
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- Others
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Others
In this interactive object, learners examine the neuron pathway into and out of the spinal cord. They complete the activity by testing their knowledge of vocabulary and the location of spinal cord structures.
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- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Knee jerk
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- Others
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Hydrogen fuel cell cars and lithium-ion battery powered cars, which is more energy efficient and cost effective? This video shows you some facts from perspectives of production, storage of fuels, and infrastructure set up for charging.
- Subjects:
- Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Transportation
- Keywords:
- Hydrogen cars Hydrogen as fuel Electric vehicles Fuel cells Hydrogen -- Storage
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- Video
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Focusing on tensions and links between national formation and international outlooks, this talk shows how classical world visions persist as China’s modernizers and revolutionaries adopted and revised the Western nation-state and cosmopolitanism. The concepts of tianxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as strategies of overcoming interstate conflict, national divides, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two debates: the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world, and the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism.
Even date: 16/9/2022
Speaker: Prof. Ban Wang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese Culture
- Subjects:
- Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Civilization Diplomatic relations World politics China
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- Video
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Others
The Thrive Programme is a powerful approach to living - the first of it's kind that teaches people the skills and tools they need to create robust mental health and love their life.
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- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Self-actualization (Psychology) Mind body
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- Others
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At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.
- Subjects:
- Electronic and Information Engineering and Computing
- Keywords:
- Human-computer interaction Augmented reality
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- Video
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In this animated and interactive object, learners examine the properties of liquids, solids, and gases.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Matter -- Properties
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- Video
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Others
Testing your design before it goes into the masses is important. It’ll help you see if the design functions effectively and how it was intended. In this article, you’ll learn more about the importance of the testing phase of design thinking.
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- Design Elements
- Keywords:
- Design
- Resource Type:
- Others
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As we move through the world, we have an innate sense of how things feel -- the sensations they produce on our skin and how our bodies orient to them. Can technology leverage this? In this fun, fascinating TED-Ed lesson, learn about the field of haptics, and how it could change everything from the way we shop online to how dentists learn the telltale feel of a cavity.
- Subjects:
- Electronic and Information Engineering and Biology
- Keywords:
- Haptic devices Touch
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- Video
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His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler Dewar.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Religious Studies
- Keywords:
- Technology -- Religious aspects
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- Video
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iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Communication, and Storytelling
- Keywords:
- Social media Digital storytelling
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- Video
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Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Recycling (Waste etc.) Excretion
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- Video
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Others
Learners are shown questions to ask themselves before they speak. They evaluate three responses according to the criteria presented. This activity has audio content.
- Subjects:
- Sociology and Communication
- Keywords:
- Interpersonal communication Oral communication
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- Others
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Others
In this interactive object, learners view a mind map of the symbolic interaction Approaches and answer questions about communication and symbols.
- Subjects:
- Sociology
- Keywords:
- Symbolic interactionism Social interaction
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- Others
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e-book
The issue of sustainability and specifically sustainable business is of increasing interest and importance to students of business and also students in the sciences, government, public policy, planning and other fields. There can be significant benefits from students learning about sustainable business from the rich experiences of business practice. The Sustainable Business Case Book by Gittell, Magnusson and Merenda is one of the first of its kind. It combines the the theory of sustainability with key concepts, analytical information and contextual information with a collection of cases which provide insights, perspective and practical guidance on how sustainable businesses operate from different business functional area perspectives. The Sustainable Business Case Book can be used as a stand-alone text or as a supplemental textbook for undergraduate courses that have an interest in sustainable business. While the book's primary focus is on the relationship between business and sustainability, the book can also be used in courses offered in fields other than business, including environmental and earth systems sciences, environmental studies, urban planning, economics and public policy. The first part of The Sustainable Business Case Book, Chapter 1 through Chapter 3, introduces students to the meaning of sustainability, and the practice of sustainable business. The introductory chapters also describe key concepts, analytical frameworks, and contextual information relevant for the understanding of business sustainability. Chapter 1, defines sustainability and describes how and why businesses choose to engage in sustainable practices and how sustainable business practices relate to corporate profitability and social responsibility. Chapters 2 and 3 provide important background and contextual information affecting sustainable business practice. Chapter 2, The Science of Sustainability, reviews scientific evidence about climate change and the human and business influences on climate change. Chapter 3, Sustainability, Public Policy and Business, describes the significant role of government and public policy in sustainability, including setting the rules, regulations and laws that define the market and market opportunities for sustainable business practice. After presenting a framework for understanding business engagement in sustainability and helping your students develop a core background of information on sustainable business seven case studies across the business disciplines illustrating business sustainability practices are presented. At the beginning of each case study chapter Learning Objectives are listed with major sustainable business points and principles that the case will illustrate and illuminate. Each case chapter includes listing of Key Takeaways, Key Terms and Exercises for students. In each case chapter, there are four main areas of focus: Context and motivating interest in sustainability for company; Description of the sustainable business practice and how it was implemented; Results in terms of changes in sales/revenues, costs, profits and competitive positioning from the sustainable business practice; Challenges and opportunities, and future considerations as a result of the company implementing the sustainable business practice.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Business -- Environmental aspects Sustainable development Textbooks
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- e-book
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Video
Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending talk from TEDGlobal he shows how it works and how similar laws hold for organisms and corporations.
- Subjects:
- Environmental Engineering and Mathematics and Statistics
- Keywords:
- Cities towns -- Growth -- Econometric models Sustainable urban development
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- Video
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What is it about unfairness? Whether it's not being invited to a friend's wedding or getting penalized for bad luck or an honest mistake, unfairness often makes us so upset that we can't think straight. And it's not just a personal issue -- it's also bad for business, says Marco Alverà. He explains how his company works to create a culture of fairness -- and how tapping into our innate sense of what's right and wrong makes for happier employees and better results.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Employee motivation Leadership Industrial management
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- Video
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Others
In this learning object, students will learn about the attachment process of specific sugars to red cell membranes and how the sugars determine ABO antigenic activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Blood groups -- ABO system
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- Others
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Others
In this animated object, learners examine the various connective tissue layers of the muscle organ. The terms "prime mover," "synergist," "antagonist," "origin," and "insertion" are defined.
- Subjects:
- Rehabilitation Science, Health Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Muscles -- Anatomy
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- Others
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Video
In this screencast, the learner identifies the kidney's internal and external structures.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Kidneys -- Anatomy Kidneys -- Physiology
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- Video
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Others
Students examine atomic structure and the octet rule.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Molecular structure Chemical structure
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- Others
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Others
In this animated object, learners read a brief description of the roles of the hypothalamus, emotions, and adrenal secretions during the stress response.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biochemistry
- Keywords:
- Stress (Physiology) Stress (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
This book is a companion volume to Volume I, "The Story of Contract Law: Formation." Volume I introduces students to law study and teaches basic doctrines of contract formation along with formation defenses. This book, Volume II, The Story of Contract Law: Implementing the Bargain, covers the rest of basic contract doctrine, namely, laws that1) determine the content of the bargain (plain meaning, usage and custom, good faith, mistake in transmission, parol evidence, and express and constructive conditions);2) govern the effect of events that occur after formation (impracticability, frustration, failure of consideration, and risk of loss);3) set remedies—rescission, damages, specific performance—available to courts when liability exists; and4) establish the rights of third parties in contracts by assignment or delegation or as third-party beneficiaries. This book includes many classic teaching cases and introduces new ones. The book also includes many problems, most based on actual cases. The book takes especial care with the doctrine of concurrent conditions, a common-law rule adopted in the late 1700s that required doctrinal readjustment across all the law governing contract performance and remedies. This volume also continues several themes from Volume I. Volume II continues to tie rules to contract law’s central structural idea, that of fair exchange. Also, to the extent helpful to student understanding, Volume II explains doctrines in part through their chronological development. The book introduces the doctrines in the order best conducive to students’ understanding contract law as a regulatory whole; for this volume, it is the order in which the doctrines arise in litigation. Finally, where possible, this volume repeats ideas at helpful points and suggests ties between doctrines so that the structural coherence of contract doctrine becomes easier to understand.
- Subjects:
- Law and Legislation
- Keywords:
- Deals Contracts United States Good faith (Law) Obligations (Law) Textbooks
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- e-book
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e-book
This book, revised as the Second Edition June 2017, is designed to teach contract doctrine beginning with the most fundamental concepts and building on these until the structure of contract doctrine as coherent and cohesive regulation appears. The order of presentation is, in fact, the order in which contract doctrine developed historically, but it is also, in general, the order in which arguments are introduced in litigation. The book begins with the most basic, core concept of contract law—exchange. The book teaches exchange using simple cases drawn from the actual development of the exchange concept's most obvious manifestation—the doctrine of consideration. These cases have basic but engaging facts. They do not take long to read, but they must be read carefully. They make an excellent introduction to law study. Logically, every doctrine of contract formation is centered on whether and when a fair exchange occurred. In litigation, the plaintiff alleges a promise and consideration—an exchange (a plausible one, and therefore fair enough at that point). Defenses to formation are a response to the allegation that a fair exchange occurred. Allegations of both promise and consideration show that the defendant assented. As between assent and exchange, exchange is the more fundamental concept, but because the law talks so often about assent, assent is covered at length afterward so that the function of the assent doctrines is apparent. Other doctrines, such as remedies (just an introduction in this first volume), waiver, seals, the Statute of Frauds, definiteness, and general public policy limitations are placed where students can best grasp their import in the context of the other doctrines. Along the way, most of the doctrines in the book are repeated in the cases, questions, or in class discussion. This repetition cements understanding, builds trust, and also allows students to see how the doctrines mesh together to regulate coherently.
- Subjects:
- Law and Legislation
- Keywords:
- Contracts Textbooks
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- e-book
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Vanessa Ruiz takes us on an illustrated journey of human anatomical art over the centuries, sharing captivating images that bring this visual science -- and the contemporary artists inspired by it -- to life. "Anatomical art has the power to reach far beyond the pages of a medical textbook," she says, "connecting our innermost selves with our bodies through art."
- Keywords:
- Medicine art Medical illustration
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- Video
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e-book
Spec is the default UI framework for Pharo. To build UI's in Spec existing widgets or even complete UI's are reused and configured to form a new UI. This book first shows the basics of Spec and how it enables reuse of UIs. It then treats UI layout in detail before moving on to explaining the management of windows. Some of the more advanced widgets are also discussed as well as the dynamic features of Spec. Lastly, the book also contains a chapter with tips and tricks.
- Subjects:
- Computing
- Keywords:
- Textbooks Smalltalk-80 (Computer program language)
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- e-book
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Others
In this well-illustrated object, learners examine the structures and properties of the four types of solids: molecular, metallic, ionic, and covalent network. Five interactive questions are provided.
- Subjects:
- Chemistry
- Keywords:
- Solid state chemistry
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
In this screencast, we'll view the 10 major bones of the skull and read a description of each bone.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Biology
- Keywords:
- Head -- Anatomy Scalp
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
In this interactive object, learners review the major parts of the skeletal system by clicking on the correct term as each bone or joint is highlighted on a skeleton.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences, Rehabiliation Science, and Biology
- Keywords:
- Bones Joints
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
Now that we know more about the structure of bones, we are ready to see how they all come together to form the skeletal system. An adult has 206 bones. What are they? How are they organized? What do they do? Let's go through all of these bones right now!
- Course related:
- HSS2011 Human Anatomy
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Human skeleton Bones
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- Video
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Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).
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- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Heart -- Diseases -- Research Heart diseases in women
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- Video
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e-book
Writing guides abound, but The Simple Math of Writing Well is one of a kind. Readers will find its practical approach affirming, encouraging, and informative, and its focus on the basics of linguistic structure releases 21st-century writers to embrace the variety of mediums that define our internet-connected world. As Harrop reminds us in the opening chapters of her book, we write more today than ever before in history: texts, emails, letters, blogs, reports, social media posts, proposals, etc. The Simple Math of Writing Well is the first guide that directly addresses the importance of writing well in the Google age.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Report writing College readers Textbooks English language -- Rhetoric
- Resource Type:
- e-book
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Others
In this interactive object, learners examine the structure and function of the sense of taste.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Taste
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- Others
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Others
In this animated object, learners trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Smell -- Physiological aspects
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- Others
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Others
In this screencast, learners read about the parts of the eye.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Optometry
- Keywords:
- Eye -- Physiology
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- Others
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Others
In this screencast, learners examine hearing and balance. Detailed drawings of the outer, middle, and inner ear structures are included.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences
- Keywords:
- Hearing Ear -- Anatomy
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- Others
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Video
So you've heard about Global Climate Change, and how it's causing our sea level to rise, but do you know the real reasons why? Find out how the properties of water make it susceptible to changes in temperature, and how this can change the globe.
- Course related:
- LSGI1D03 Living on a Dynamic Earth
- Subjects:
- Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Expansion (Heat) Sea level -- Environmental aspects Climatic changes
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- Video
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MOOC
introduces a number of basic scientific principles underpinning the methodology of cooking, food preparation and the enjoyment of food.
- Subjects:
- Food and Beverage and Food Science
- Keywords:
- Cooking
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- MOOC
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MOOC
We will explore the psychology of our everyday thinking: why people believe weird things, how we form and change our opinions, why our expectations skew our judgments, and how we can make better decisions. We'll discuss and debate topics such as placebos, the paranormal, medicine, miracles, and more. You will use the scientific method to evaluate claims, make sense of evidence, and understand why we so often make irrational choices. You will begin to rely on slow, effortful, deliberative, analytic, and logical thinking rather than fast, automatic, instinctive, emotional, and stereotypical thinking.
- Course related:
- HTM3207 Lodging and Accommodation Management
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Critical thinking Thought thinking Reasoning (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- MOOC
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Others
Learners will examine how to use the SMART principle to make sure a goal is simple, measurable, realistic, timely, and holds people accountable.
- Keywords:
- Goal (Psychology) Motivation (Psychology)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Microglia are the primary immune cells in the central nervous system. In the brain, they play central roles in proper development and function, as well as dysfunction and disease. In her first talk, Dr. Beth Stevens provides an overview of the many ways microglia cells operate, and how they can both harm and protect the brain. Fairly recent advances in the study of microglia through imaging have allowed researchers to identify different microglia states and study their dynamic roles at different stages of development. In her second second talk, Dr. Stevens dives deeper into the mechanisms that allow microglia to shape the network of connections between neurons in the brain. She provides an introduction to the role of microglia in synaptic pruning, the process of eliminating extra synapses in healthy developing brains. She then goes on to explain how the reactivation of this process affects aging and diseased brains.
- Subjects:
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Keywords:
- Microglia Brain -- Diseases
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- Video
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Others
Do you want to learn a bit more about the history of sans serifs? The last few years have brought a lot of changes in branding. Many companies were shifting from serif fonts to sans serifs. Check out this article to learn more about the reasons behind it.
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- Typography and Design Elements
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- Type type-founding History
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- Others
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Others
In this animated learning object, learners examine the regulation of inducible operons in bacterial systems.
- Subjects:
- Medical Laboratory Science and Biology
- Keywords:
- Operons
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- Others
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Others
Learners read about a process for sorting items in the workplace. "Sort" is the first of the five steps in 5S.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Work environment Organizational behavior Office management
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- Others
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Video
An animation which illustrates from a real story. 3 students went to a very large IT company in Shanghai for summer placement and they found how difficult it was to capture or rediscover the business process in reality.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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- Video
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Courseware
In this course, we will investigate the diverse types and functions of different RNA species, with a focus on "non-coding RNAs," i.e. those that do not directly encode proteins. The course will convey both the exciting discoveries in and frontiers of RNA research that are propelling our understanding of cell biology as well as the intellectual and experimental approaches responsible. The molecular biology revolution firmly established the role of DNA as the primary carrier of genetic information and proteins as the primary effector molecules of the cell. The intermediate between DNA and proteins is RNA, which initially was regarded as the "molecule in the middle" of the central dogma. This view has been transformed over the past two decades, as RNA has become recognized as a critical regulator of cellular processes.
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- Biology
- Keywords:
- Non-coding RNA RNA
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- Courseware
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Video
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Self Personality
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- Video
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Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Self Control Time -- Psychological aspects
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- Video
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Video
Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts that interfere with everyday life. Joelle Rabow Maletis details the science behind post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
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- Video
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Video
"If we want to fix our politics, we have to do something about inequality," says social psychologist Keith Payne. Showing how economic inequality changes the way people see and behave towards one another, Payne helps explain the rise of the political polarization that's slicing up society -- and challenges us to think twice the next time we dismiss someone for the sake of politics.
- Subjects:
- Sociology and Psychology
- Keywords:
- Social psychology Equality
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- Video
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Video
Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Good evil -- Psychological aspects
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- Video
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Video
Often people make decisions that are not "rational" from a purely economical point of view — meaning that they don't necessarily lead to the best result. Why is that? Are we just bad at dealing with numbers and odds? Or is there a psychological mechanism behind it? Sara Garofalo explains heuristics, problem-solving approaches based on previous experience and intuition rather than analysis.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Decision making
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- Video
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Others
Learners listen to effective techniques to successfully interact with customers via the telephone. They also submit their own suggested replies to customers in various scenarios. Topics include general telephone etiquette, dealing with angry callers, working with confused or unsure customers, and managing voicemail. A quiz completes this customer service activity.
- Keywords:
- Telephone etiquette Telephone in business
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- Others
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Video
In this learning activity you'll construct a production possibility model.
- Subjects:
- Economics
- Keywords:
- Production (Economics) Production possibility curve
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- Video
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e-book
The title of this book is The Process of Research Writing, and in the nutshell, that is what the book is about. A lot of times, instructors and students tend to separate “thinking,” “researching,” and “writing” into different categories that aren't necessarily very well connected. First you think, then you research, and then you write.The reality is though that the possibilities and process of research writing are more complicated and much richer than that. We think about what it is we want to research and write about, but at the same time, we learn what to think based on our research and our writing. The goal of this book is to guide you through this process of research writing by emphasizing a series of exercises that touch on different and related parts of the research process.
- Subjects:
- English Language
- Keywords:
- Report writing Textbooks
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- e-book
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Others
If you are a beginner designer, this article is for you. The creation of a successful design piece is based on a set of principles. These tools can help you structure your design while still keeping it interesting.
- Subjects:
- Design Elements
- Keywords:
- Design
- Resource Type:
- Others
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e-book
The Power of Selling is the perfect textbook to teach students about the proven process of selling. More important, it teaches students how to apply the tenets of selling to how to sell themselves and get the job they want, with the same process professional sales people learn (or brush up) on their own selling skills. What makes someone successful in sales? Are great sales people born or made? Is there one magic selling process, or does the process change based on the business‚ or the customer? How can the selling process really come alive for students in the classroom? How do students learn how to sell for life, not just for a course? The Power of Selling by Kim Richmond answers these questions and makes the principles of selling come alive. Kim looks at the topic of selling through a different lens, and provides inspiration and ideas. The Power of Selling provides an exciting and interactive experience for both professors and students through the use of 4 unique elements: 1. Content The content is based on the core selling tenets so instructors will find the familiar principles of selling. In addition, the impact of Sales 2.0 is addressed at every stage including how to use interactive tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, and wikis effectively. 2. Selling U: The last section of each chapter is called Selling U. It applies the concepts covered in the chapter to a student's job search. Selling U topics include how to think about yourself as a brand, how to create a powerful cover letter and resume, how to create your personal elevator pitch, how to use networking and informational interviews to get the word out about your brand, how to prepare and dress for an interview, and how to negotiate and accept the right job offer. What makes The Power of Selling different is that Selling U is integrated into every chapter, which makes this text the ultimate guide to selling yourself. 3. Video Resources:Videos are used throughout the book. Additional videos that are not included in the text are available for instructor use. Here are videos that are available: … Video Ride-alongs — One of the best ways to learn about sales is by going on ride-alongs. So every chapter starts with an exclusive feature called a Video Ride-along. These short videos feature seven different sales professionals — one that starts each chapter. Each one talks about how he or she applies one of the key concepts covered in the chapter in their job. These videos are designed to be ”virtual ride-alongs“ so the students can actually feel as though they are getting insights first hand from selling professionals. … Over 50 videos are included featuring the sales professionals who are highlighted in the Video Ride-alongs. About half of the videos are used in the textbook. The balance are available for instructor use. Several are included in Video Learning Segments (see below). These videos are excellent resources for use in the classroom, exercises, and assignments. … Video Learning Segments In addition to the traditional supplements of Instructor Manual, PowerPoints, and Test Bank, there are also Video Learning Segments. These are PowerPoint slides embedded with videos designed to supplement the course PowerPoints and focus on one concept, like an ethical dilemma, pre-call preparation, or effective presentations, how to use email effectively. Each segment includes slides, videos, discussion questions, or exercises. 4. The Power of Selling LinkedIn Group. This group was created on LinkedIn.com expressly as a resource for the faculty and students who use this textbook. The group includes sales professionals from across the country and from different industries. This is a great tool for faculty and students alike to network, participate in discussions, ask questions, and connect with ”real world“ selling professionals. Kim Richmond's The Power of Selling is a fresh, interactive, and applied textbook intended for all introductory and sales, selling and salesmanship courses. If you're ready to prepare your ”students of selling“ for all that lies ahead in their professional career—you're ready for this book. Check it out.
- Subjects:
- Marketing
- Keywords:
- Sales personnel Selling Textbooks Success in business
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- e-book
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Courseware
In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of microeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of real world situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Microeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive environment. Note that this course is a companion to the Power of Macroeconomics. If you take both courses, you will learn all of the major principles normally taught in a year-long introductory economics college course.
- Subjects:
- Economics
- Keywords:
- Microeconomics
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- Courseware
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Courseware
In this course, you will learn all of the major principles of macroeconomics normally taught in a quarter or semester course to college undergraduates or MBA students. Perhaps more importantly, you will also learn how to apply these principles to a wide variety of situations in both your personal and professional lives. In this way, the Power of Macroeconomics will help you prosper in an increasingly competitive and globalized environment.
- Subjects:
- Economics
- Keywords:
- Macroeconomics
- Resource Type:
- Courseware
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Presentation
This video was recorded at MIT World Series: Back to the Classroom 2009. Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting energy into the process of solving key innovation problems, whether in business or society. Murray is convinced competition make ventures "more effective, more global, more inclusive and more democratic," all important dimensions for business in a flattening world. She describes the rapidly expanding R&D expenditures of India and China, including the vast numbers of Ph.D.s these nations are producing in science and engineering. The corporate sector has found building global R&D organizations and collaborations difficult. In this challenging environment, where the advantage goes to those firms snagging the best scientists, Murray believes "prizes are complementary mechanisms" for attracting global talent. Just like historic rivalries among great artists (Nb., Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese), or the race to discover the structure of DNA, "fierce competition" can yield "dramatic productivity" and innovation, especially when the right rewards are at stake. Murray cites the 18th century competition to invent a mechanism for determining a ship's longitude, which offered a 20 thousand-pound prize. She jumps to the present, with the X Prize Foundation and its various competitions to solve engineering challenges and societal problems, such as the three-person reusable spaceship, and a 100-mpg car -- each with a $10 million prize purse. But it's not just the money. Recent studies show that prizes prove alluring when they focus efforts and resources on a problem that people are already studying, offering fame and "putting fun back into innovation." The fascination skews rational calculations, with competitors often spending well beyond the amount offered to the winner. Corporations should adopt the prize mechanism, believes Murray, to help generate new ideas (such as new applications for Google's phone); or to help solve very specific problems. Campus competitions are up markedly, she notes, which might be a distraction for students at places like MIT. Start small and inside the organization first, creating a shared bulletin board and offering small prizes, she advises, which will "generate energy." Then take competition beyond the company. And don't forget, "the work must be fun" in order to "get a richer set of people to participate.
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- Management
- Keywords:
- Competition
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- Presentation
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Video
PolyU has announced the return of F2F learning and teaching (L&T) mode in the coming semester. Are we ready to continue our journey to the ‘new normal’ of e-L&T in our pedagogical pursuit for the new generation? In this Webinar organized by APSS and in collaboration with Educational Development Centre (EDC), Professor Doug VOGEL will provide the audience with a succinct capture of his aspiration for Education 4.0, and give his feedback on the endeavors that APSS has been working on with EDC to ride the juggernaut of pedagogical challenges and advancement in the changing environments.
Event Date: 17/12/2021
Facilitator(s): Julia Chen, Rodney Chu, Darren Harbutt
- Subjects:
- Good Practices and Lesson Design
- Keywords:
- Web-based instruction Educational technology Computer-assisted instruction Teaching Blended learning Learning
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- Video
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Video
Speaking one month after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Lisa Margonelli shows how drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract us from the issue at heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off oil -- by confronting consumers with its real cost.
- Subjects:
- Environmental Sciences
- Keywords:
- Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects Petroleum industry trade -- Political aspects Petroleum
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
Students read how the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is used in problem-solving and process improvement. In an interactive exercise, students organize process improvement steps following this model.
- Subjects:
- Management
- Keywords:
- Process control Industrial management
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
In the third act of "Swan Lake", the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around and around and around ... thirty-two times. How is this move — which is called a fouetté — even possible? Arleen Sugano unravels the physics of this famous ballet move.
- Subjects:
- Physics
- Keywords:
- Ballet dancing Physics
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- Video
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Video
Whether or not you realize it, surfers are masters of complicated physics. The science of surfing begins as soon as a board first hits the water. Surfers may not be thinking about weather patterns in the Pacific, tectonic geology or fluid mechanics, but the art of catching the perfect wave relies on all these things and more. Nick Pizzo dives into the gnarly physics that make surfing possible.
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Video
Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm -- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of...other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how fluid will behave, often fluctuating due to size of the swimmer. Aatish Bhatia explores the great (albeit tiny) sperm's journey.
- Subjects:
- Physics
- Keywords:
- Fluid dynamics Sperm whale Spermatozoa
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- Video
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Others
Students read about the six theoretical perspectives used to explore psychological events and do an interactive exercise.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Psychology -- Philosophy
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Video
In this screencast you'll define how perception influences your world view and learn the elements of the perception process.
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Perception
- Resource Type:
- Video
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e-book
Government agencies frequently contract with nonprofit or for-profit organizations to provide services to improve the well-being of their clients―for example, by reducing recidivism, homelessness, or drug use. Governments have traditionally paid service providers on the basis of the number of clients they treat. The past decade has seen a number of Pay for Success (PFS) or results-based finance (RBF) programs, in which service providers are paid for their outcomes or results. For example, whereas a government agency contracting with a service provider to reduce recidivism among young men released from prison would traditionally have paid the service provider for the hours spent counseling a client, a PFS contract pays the organization for success in reducing the clients’ rate of recidivism from some baseline. This handbook is written for government officials considering the adoption of Pay For Success (PFS) programs and for students in public policy and business schools interested in studying outcomes-oriented government contracts for services. Part One introduces concepts necessary to develop and operate a service delivery program and then surveys some of the issues specific to PFS. Part Two presents two detailed case studies and a number of shorter descriptions of PFS programs. Part Three focuses on the components of PFS programs; it also discusses barriers to their development and ways of overcoming them. An editable file (docx) is also available.
- Subjects:
- Sociology
- Keywords:
- United States Public welfare -- Finance Federal aid to public welfare Textbooks
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- e-book
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Video
In this screencast, students view a basic wheelchair and identify its parts.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Rehabilitation Sciences
- Keywords:
- Wheelchairs
- Resource Type:
- Video
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Others
This case study discusses how the Palace Museum successfully integrated traditional culture into contemporary craft production through creative cultural product design, public relations, and cross-border marketing strategies, thereby enhancing its products' artistic value and influence and forming a good reputation.
- Subjects:
- Hotel, Travel and Tourism and Marketing
- Keywords:
- Museums -- Marketing Gu gong bo wu yuan (China)
- Resource Type:
- Others
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Others
In this interactive object, learners examine the locations of major body cavities and their protective membranes. A drag-and-drop exercise completes the activity.
- Subjects:
- Health Sciences and Human Biology
- Keywords:
- Human body Body cavities
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- Others
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Others
Dr Meredith Belbin defines a 'Team Role' as one of nine clusters of behavioural attributes identified by his research at Henley as being effective in order to facilitate team progress.
- Keywords:
- Teams in the workplace Project management
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- Others
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Video
Nearly every other year the transistors that power silicon computer chip shrink in size by half and double in performance, enabling our devices to become more mobile and accessible. But what happens when these components can't get any smaller? George Tulevski researches the unseen and untapped world of nanomaterials. His current work: developing chemical processes to compel billions of carbon nanotubes to assemble themselves into the patterns needed to build circuits, much the same way natural organisms build intricate, diverse and elegant structures. Could they hold the secret to the next generation of computing?
- Subjects:
- Nanotechnology and Electric and information Engineering
- Keywords:
- Nanoelectromechanical systems Nanotechnology
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- Video
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Video
Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.
- Subjects:
- Economics
- Keywords:
- Online social networks Information technology -- Economic aspects Technological innovations -- Social aspects
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- Video
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Video
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
- Subjects:
- Psychology
- Keywords:
- Positive psychology
- Resource Type:
- Video