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12 Cognitive biases explained - How to think better and more logically removing bias

In this video, it is about the explanation of 12 cognitive biases and presenting them in a format that learners can easily understand to help them make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in the thought process, leading to a more successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help learners win an argument or present information better.

Keywords:: Selectivity (Psychology) Cognition Fallacies (Logic)
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15.024 Applied Economics for Managers | Sloan School of Management

The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses – or allocations – of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate these choices. It also examines how well markets perform this function using the economist's criterion of market efficiency. Overall, this course focuses on microeconomics, with some topics from macroeconomics and international trade. It emphasizes the integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing U.S. and international business environments.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Microeconomics
Resource Type:: Courseware

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15.875 Applications of System Dynamics

15.875 is a project-based course that explores how organizations can use system dynamics to achieve important goals. In small groups, students learn modeling and consulting skills by working on a term-long project with real-life managers. A diverse set of businesses and organizations sponsor class projects, from start-ups to the Fortune 500. The course focuses on gaining practical insight from the system dynamics process, and appeals to people interested in system dynamics, consulting, or managerial policy-making.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Business consultants Social psychology
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16 Personalities

In our free type descriptions you’ll learn what really drives, inspires, and worries different personality types, helping you build more meaningful relationships.

Course related:: MM517 Human Resource development
Subjects:: Psychology
Keywords:: Typology (Psychology) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Resource Type:: Others

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16.660J Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods (MIT)

This course covers the fundamental principles, practices and tools of Lean Six Sigma methods that underlay modern organizational productivity approaches applied in aerospace, automotive, health care, and other sectors. It includes lectures, active learning exercises, a plant tour, talks by industry practitioners, and videos. One third of the course is devoted to a physical simulation of an aircraft manufacturing enterprise or a clinic to illustrate the power of Lean Six Sigma methods. The course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Industrial efficiency Lean manufacturing Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

2-Minute Neuroscience: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)

The video discusses how fMRI works, what is represented in a typical fMRI image, and some of the methodological problems associated with the use of fMRI. Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Cognitive neuroscience Magnetic resonance imaging Brain -- Magnetic resonance imaging
Resource Type:: Video

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Neuroimaging

This video discusses neuroimaging, covering four of the most common types of neuroimaging: computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Transcript included.

Subjects:: Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Brain -- Imaging
Resource Type:: Video

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2-Minute Neuroscience: Optic Nerve (Cranial Nerve II)

A 2-minute video (with transcript) discusses the anatomy and function of the optic nerve, as well as describe what can happen when the nerve is damaged. Additional notes are available at https://www.neuroscientificallychallenged.com/optic-nerve-deficits .

Subjects:: Optometry
Keywords:: Optic nerve Optic nerve -- Diseases Nerves Cranial
Resource Type:: Video

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A Benchmark Dataset for Manipuri Meetei-Mayek Handwritten Character Recognition

This work introduces a handwritten Manipuri Meetei-Mayek character dataset which consists of more than 5000 data samples which were collected from a diverse population group that belongs to different age groups (from 4 years to 60 years), genders, educational backgrounds, occupations, communities from three different districts of Manipur, India (Imphal East District, Thoubal District and Kangpokpi District) during March and April 2019.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Optical pattern recognition
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB

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.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: MATLAB Engineering mathematics
Resource Type:: e-book

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A Designer's Innovative Approach to Branding, Storytelling and Experience Design

Jim Bull, Co-founder and chief creative officer of Moving Brands, discusses his own professional path. He was instrumental in developing an innovative approach to branding, storytelling and experience design. His deep understanding of how to create successful brands has enabled Moving Brands to help define internationally known brands such as Apple, Google, Nokia, Microsoft and Stella McCartney. In this dynamic lecture, he speaks about his 16 years of running a creative, global business—when to take risks, how to win work and why you need to pick a leader.

Subjects:: Advertising Design and Storytelling
Keywords:: Storytelling Bring (Marketing)
Resource Type:: Video

Open (Access) Journal-Article

A Lean Six Sigma framework to enhance the competitiveness in selected automotive component manufacturing organisations

This article investigates the integration of Lean and Six Sigma tools as a unified approach to continuous improvement and develops a Lean Six Sigma framework for selected automotive component manufacturing organisations in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Production management Automobile supplies industry Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article

e-book

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture

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.

Subjects:: Performing Arts and Visual Arts
Keywords:: Popular culture Art Modern Music History
Resource Type:: e-book

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ABG Online Learning Activity

An interactive online learning activity (tutorial) for nurses and healthcare personnel. ** Skip registration and click on the 'Start here' link (below the registration section), if you are not interested in the credits.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Nursing -- Study teaching Allied health personnel -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Academic Listening Survival Strategies: A guide for students of English medium universities

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
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Acoustic Remote Sensing and Sea Floor Mapping

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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Ad*Access

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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Adjective Clauses

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Ads of the World

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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Advanced Communication for Leaders

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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Advanced Complexity Theory

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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Advanced Design and Optimization of Composite Structures I

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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Advanced Device Physics

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.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Metal oxide semiconductors Complementary Semiconductors Metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors Electronic circuit design
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Advanced Kitchen Chemistry

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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Advanced Python Programming for GIS

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.

Subjects:: Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Python (Computer program language) Geographic information systems
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Advanced SQL

Take your SQL skills to the next level.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Database management SQL (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Others

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Advanced Solid State Physics

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.

Subjects:: Physics
Keywords:: Materials -- Electric properties Thermoelectricity Superconductivity
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Advanced Structural Analysis

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.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Airframes Structural analysis (Engineering)
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Advanced Studio on the Production of Space

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.

Keywords:: Space (Architecture) Architecture -- Philosophy
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Advanced Transport Phenomena

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.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Transport theory Energy transfer Heat -- Transmission Mass transfer
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Science and Engineering (ELS)

This course offers analysis and practice of various forms of scientific and technical writing, from memos to journal articles, in addition to strategies for conveying technical information to specialist and non-specialist audiences. Comparable to 21W.780 Communicating in Technical Organizations, but methods in this course are designed to deal with special problems of advanced ELS or bilingual students. The goal of the workshop is to develop effective writing skills for academic and professional contexts. Models, materials, topics and assignments vary from term to term.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: Technical writing
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing offers guidelines on how mobile software services can be used in order to simplify the mobile users' life. The main contribution of this book is enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design, development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms, decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed mobile computing are the main concern of the first section. In the mobile software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application testing strategies. The last section, mobile applications as service, covers different mobile solutions and different application sectors.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Mobile computing
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Advances in Biomaterials Science and Biomedical Applications

This contribution book is a collection of reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the multi- and interdisciplinary arena of biomaterials, ranging from their design to novel uses. From their personal experience, the readers can obtain a stimulating foresight on the potentialities of different synthetic and engineered biomaterials. 21 chapters have been organized to illustrate different aspects of biomaterials science. From advanced means for the characterization and toxicological assessment of new materials, through ‘classical’ applications in nanotechnology and tissue engineering, toward novel specific uses of these products, the volume wishes to give readers a view of the wide range of disciplines and methodologies that have been exploited to develop biomaterials with the physical and biological features needed for specific clinical and medical applications.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Biomedical materials Biomedical engineering
Resource Type:: e-book

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Advances in Flight Control Systems

This book brings together reputable researchers from different countries in order to provide a comprehensive coverage of advanced and modern topics in flight control not yet reflected by other books. This product comprises 14 contributions submitted by 38 authors from 11 different countries and areas. It covers most of the currents main streams of flight control researches, ranging from adaptive flight control mechanism, fault tolerant flight control, acceleration based flight control, helicopter flight control, comparison of flight control systems and fundamentals. According to these themes the contributions are grouped in six categories, corresponding to six parts of the book.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Flight control Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
Resource Type:: e-book

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Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and with the explosive worldwide growth of electronic data volume, and associated need of processing, analysis, and storage of such humongous volume of data, several new challenges are faced in protecting privacy of sensitive data and securing systems by designing novel schemes for secure authentication, integrity protection, encryption, and non-repudiation. Lightweight symmetric key cryptography and adaptive network security algorithms are in demand for mitigating these challenges. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, engineers, practitioners, graduates, and doctoral students who are working in the field of cryptography, network security, and security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It will also be useful for faculty members of graduate schools and universities.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Computer security Data encryption (Computer science) Data protection Computer networks -- Security measures
Resource Type:: e-book

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Adverb Clauses

This is an open course in adverb clauses of English grammar. It starts with a lesson on the basics of adverbs and then moves to a lesson on the basics of clauses. Then we put those things together and learn about adverb clauses. Finally, we learn how to reduce an adverb clause to make an adverb phrase. If you already understand adverbs and clauses, you can skip those topics, but they also may be useful to review before starting the more difficult material. Each lesson has a short video lecture from a teacher and several practice exercises.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Grammar
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Aerodynamics for Students

This web textbook contains information, data tables and computer programs for the study of aerodynamics, gas dynamics, propulsion, aircraft performance and flight mechanics. Topics relevant to the undergraduate engineering degree at a university level are covered.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Aerodynamics
Resource Type:: e-book

e-journal

Aerospace

Aerospace is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal (free for readers) devoted to the publication of original papers, review articles, short notes and communications related to all fields of aerospace science, engineering and technology, disclosing theoretical, fundamental and applied results linked to potential applications that are related to research, design, manufacture, operations, control and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Aeronautics Astronautics
Resource Type:: e-journal

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Aerospace Mechanics of Materials

Welcome to this course of Aerospace Mechanics of Materials. We are happy that you chose to join us on this exciting journey. This course deals with basic material and geometry dependent analysis of structures. In this course, you will investigate how these material properties, in combination with structural geometries, affect the design and performance of basic structural elements under axial, torsion, bending and shear loading. We have divided this course into eight different subjects and a review chapter. In those subject, you will find video lectures and readings, where the concepts and theory will be explained; examples, where we will solve a problem for you, so you can reinforce the concepts you have learned; and exercises, that will allow you to test your knowledge.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Mechanics Applied Aerospace engineering Mechanical engineering Strength of materials Materials
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Agile Software Development: It’s Implication for AI products and Developers

Software developments is advancing the technological world today. This changes have far more reaching implications in I.T industries such as Big data, Artificial intelligence and Agile Software development methodologies. Competition in the software development ecosystem has made developers to build software that are quick and reliable and often referred to as Agile development. Agile transformation is real and requires rethinking the business management, recruitment process and data strategy in a bid to stimulate disruptive solutions from within in-house development and deployment. AI product development would require rapid transformational changes within any organization. This can be accomplished by establishing specific operating models that permit development teams with the freedom of technology choice. This publication highlights some operating models that can be adopted to improve the success of AI products using Agile software development methodologies.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Agile software development
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Air Pollution 101

What is air pollution? Learn how greenhouse gasses, smog, and toxic pollutants effect climate change, and human health.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering
Keywords:: Air -- Pollution Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects Smog
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Air Traffic Control

This book includes nine chapters that demonstrate the multi-disciplinary character of the air traffic control domain.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Air traffic control
Resource Type:: e-book

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Aircraft Stability and Control

This class includes a brief review of applied aerodynamics and modern approaches in aircraft stability and control. Topics covered include static stability and trim; stability derivatives and characteristic longitudinal and lateral-directional motions; and physical effects of the wing, fuselage, and tail on aircraft motion. Control methods and systems are discussed, with emphasis on flight vehicle stabilization by classical and modern control techniques; time and frequency domain analysis of control system performance; and human-pilot models and pilot-in-the-loop controls with applications. Other topics covered include V/STOL stability, dynamics, and control during transition from hover to forward flight; parameter sensitivity; and handling quality analysis of aircraft through variable flight conditions. There will be a brief discussion of motion at high angles-of-attack, roll coupling, and other nonlinear flight regimes.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Stability of airplanes Flight control
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Aircraft Systems Engineering

This course adopts a holistic view of the aircraft as a system, covering: basic systems engineering; cost and weight estimation; basic aircraft performance; safety and reliability; lifecycle topics; aircraft subsystems; risk analysis and management; and system realization.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Airplanes -- Design construction
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Airline Management

This course provides an overview of airline management decision processes with a focus on economic issues and their relationship to operations planning models and decision support tools. It emphasizes the application of economic models of demand, pricing, costs, and supply to airline markets and networks, and it examines industry practice and emerging methods for fleet planning, route network design, scheduling, pricing and revenue management.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Airlines -- Management
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Algorithm Visualizer

Algorithm Visualizer is an interactive online platform that visualizes algorithms from code. Learning an algorithm gets much easier with visualizing it.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Information visualization Algorithms
Resource Type:: Others

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Algoritmiek

This course treats various methods to design and analyze datastructures and algorithms for a wide range of problems. The most important new datastructure treated is the graph, and the general methods introduced are: greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming and network flow algorithms. These general methods are explained by a number of concrete examples, such as simple scheduling algorithms, Dijkstra, Ford-Fulkerson, minimum spanning tree, closest-pair-of-points, knapsack, and Bellman-Ford. Throughout this course there is significant attention to proving the correctness of the discussed algorithms. All material for this course is in English. The recorded lectures, however, are in Dutch.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Data structures (Computer science) Algorithms
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An RNA Safari: Exploring the Surprising Diversity of Mammalian Transcriptomes

The aim of this class is to introduce the exciting and often under appreciated discoveries in RNA biology by exploring the diversity of RNAs—encompassing classical molecules such as ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and messenger RNAs (mRNAs) as well as newer species, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), and circular RNAs (circRNAs). For each new class of RNA, we will evaluate the evidence for its existence as well as for its proposed function. Students will develop both a deep understanding of the field of RNA biology and the ability to critically assess new papers in this fast-paced field. This course is one of many Advanced Undergraduate Seminars offered by the Biology Department at MIT. These seminars are tailored for students with an interest in using primary research literature to discuss and learn about current biological research in a highly interactive setting. Many instructors of the Advanced Undergraduate Seminars are postdoctoral scientists with a strong interest in teaching.

Subjects:: Biology
Keywords:: RNA
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Analog Integrated Circuit Design

An introductory course in analog circuit synthesis for microelectronic designers. Topics include: Review of analog design basics; linear and non-linear analog building blocks: harmonic oscillators, (static and dynamic) translinear circuits, wideband amplifiers, filters; physical layout for robust analog circuits; design of voltage sources ranging from simple voltage dividers to high-performance bandgaps, and current source implementations from a single resistor to high-quality references based on negative-feedback structures.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Analog integrated circuits
Resource Type:: Courseware

Presentation

Analyzing Word Frequencies in Large Text Corpora using Inter-arrival Times and Bootstrapping

This video was recorded at European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Athens 2011. Comparing frequency counts over texts or corpora is an important task in many applications and scientific disciplines. Given a text corpus, we want to test a hypothesis, such as "word X is frequent", "word X has become more frequent over time", or "word X is more frequent in male than in female speech". For this purpose we need a null model of word frequencies. The commonly used bag-of-words model, which corresponds to a Bernoulli process with fixed parameter, does not account for any structure present in natural languages. Using this model for word frequencies results in large numbers of words being reported as unexpectedly frequent. We address how to take into account the inherent occurrence patterns of words in significance testing of word frequencies. Based on studies of words in two large corpora, we propose two methods for modeling word frequencies that both take into account the occurrence patterns of words and go beyond the bag-of-words assumption. The first method models word frequencies based on the spatial distribution of individual words in the language. The second method is based on bootstrapping and takes into account only word frequency at the text level. The proposed methods are compared to the current gold standard in a series of experiments on both corpora. We find that words obey different spatial patterns in the language, ranging from bursty to non-bursty/uniform, independent of their frequency, showing that the traditional approach leads to many false positives.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Computational linguistics Text processing (Computer science) Discourse analysis -- Data processing
Resource Type:: Presentation

e-book

Anatomy and Physiology

An openly accessible textbook for a two-semester human anatomy and physiology course for life science and allied health majors. Instructor resources including instructors guide and Powerpoint slides are downloadable from the site. Download options in various formats: Openstax Apps, PDF, Kindle, ibooks, Chegg, and read online are available.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
Resource Type:: e-book

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Anatomy and Physiology I

In this learning object the organizational levels of life are covered. Topics include listing the simplest to most complex levels of the human body and the organ systems. Labeling activities and quiz questions are included as self-assessments.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human anatomy Human physiology
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics

This course explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. We investigate how ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality / irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry. The course examines how discovery of the incommensurability of magnitudes challenged the Greek presumption that the cosmos is fully understandable. Students explore the influence of mathematics on ancient Greek ethical theories. We read such authors as: Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachus, Theon of Smyrna, Bacon, Descartes, Dedekind, and Newton.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics and Philosophy
Keywords:: Mathematics -- Philosophy Philosophy Ancient
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Anthropology 135A: Religion & Social Order

This course is an anthropological exploration of religions in diverse cultural and historical contexts. Our focus will be on relations of power, social order, social change, gender, and the role that religion plays in modernity, transnationalism, and globalization. We will investigate the performance of rites and rituals, and the cultural expressions of religious beliefs and practices. Through comparative and critical strategies, we will look at how religion interacts with, and is embedded in other aspects of society. In doing so, we will find religious elements in unexpected places. We will study anthropological theories of culture and religion from the classical canon, in addition to contemporary approaches, and apply them to a variety of topics. While respecting the efficacy of all systems of belief, we will think about how religions orient people to their social worlds in ways that are systematically related to historical and cultural change.

Subjects:: Anthropology
Keywords:: Religion sociology
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Anxiety

A set of 5 videos (with transcripts) guided by lecture notes.

Subjects:: Health Sciences and Nursing
Keywords:: Panic disorders Post-traumatic stress disorder Anxiety disorders Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Applied Macro- and International Economics II

This course seeks to establish understanding of the development processes of societies and economies by studying several dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, political, institutional, economy, organizational, relational, and personal) and the balance among them. It explores the basics of governmental intervention, focusing on areas such as the judicial system, environment, social security, and health, and builds skills to determine what type of policy is most appropriate. We also consider implications of new technologies on the financial sector: Internationalization of currencies, mobile payment systems, and cryptocurrencies, and discuss the institutional framework to ensure choices are sustainable across all dimensions and applications.

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Sustainability Electronic funds transfers Macroeconomics Internstional economic relations
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Open (Access) Journal-Article

Applying DMAIC Methodology to Reduce Defects of Sewing Section in RMG: A Case Study

This work walks around the use of DMAIC methodology of six sigma to lessen the defect rate in sewing section of FCI (BD) LTD. Throughout five phases of DMAIC methodology, named Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control, this approach minimizes defects analytically. In different phases, different types of six sigma tools were exercised.

Subjects:: Management and Business Information Technology
Keywords:: Clothing trade Production management Six sigma (Quality control stard)
Resource Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article

e-book

Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground: Unreasonable Creatures

Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground sets out to validate the role of the unreasonable in the design process. Using case study projects, architect Urs Bette gives an insight into the epistemological processes of his creative practice, and unveils the strategies he deploys in order to facilitate the poetic aspects of architecture within a discourse whose evaluation parameters predominantly involve reason. Themes discussed include the emergence of space from the staged opposition between the architectural object and the site, and the relationship between emotive cognition and analytic synthesis in the design act. In both cases, there is a necessary engagement with forms of ‘unreasonable’ thought, action or behaviours. By arguing for the usefulness and validity of the unreasonable in architecture, and by investigating the performative relationship between object and ground, Bette contributes to the discourse on extensions, growth and urban densification that tap into local histories and voices, including those of the seemingly inanimate – the architecture itself and the ground it sits upon – to inform the site-related production of architectural character and space. In doing so, he raises debates about the values pursued in design approval processes, and the ways in which site-relatedness is both produced and judged.

Subjects:: Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Architectural design Architectural practice
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

Arduino Introduction

The ultimate Arduino tutorial for beginners. Learn how to choose an Arduino, dim LEDs, build a motor speed controller and more.

Keywords:: Programmable controllers Arduino (Programmable controller)
Resource Type:: Video

Others

Arduino Official Website

Arduino is the world’s leading open-source hardware and software ecosystem. The Company offers a range of software tools, hardware platforms and documentation enabling almost anybody to be creative with technology. Arduino is a popular tool for IoT product development as well as one of the most successful tools for STEM/STEAM education. Hundreds of thousands of designers, engineers, students, developers and makers around the world are using Arduino to innovate in music, games, toys, smart homes, farming, autonomous vehicles, and more.

Keywords:: Arduino (Programmable controller) Programmable controllers
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Are Electric Cars Really More Environmentally Friendly?

Some people say that buying an electric car is a great way to fight climate change - but if they use electricity that is made by burning fossil fuels, are they really more environmentally friendly than gas powered cars?

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation
Keywords:: Electric vehicles Electric vehicles -- Environmental aspects Automobiles -- Environmental aspects
Resource Type:: Video

Video

Are Electric Planes Possible?

Can renewable energy be adopted to aviation transportation industry? Can our giant planes powered by batteries? This video discusses some possibilities.

Subjects:: Environmental Engineering, Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and Transportation
Keywords:: Renewable energy sources Energy storage Airplanes -- Fuel
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Art Appreciation 101

Art Appreciation thoroughly investigates how quality is determined and created by artists in order to evaluate and appreciate art on a deeper level. This course emphasizes why each topic contributes to valuing a piece of art and provides the necessary knowledge to do so. Students are first introduced to the elements and principles of art and the importance of artists’ context and perspective. The course then covers different periods in art history, different techniques in art, and how to research and evaluate art.

Subjects:: Visual Arts
Keywords:: Art appreciation Art criticism Art -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR)

Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities. The site promotes discussion and reflection around new ways of teaching and learning in the art history classroom through a peer-populated blog, and fosters a collaborative virtual community for art history instructors at all career stages.

Subjects:: Visual Arts
Keywords:: Arts History Art -- Study teaching
Resource Type:: Others

Others

Art History: Curriculum Resources from the Met

These comprehensive and fully illustrated guides provide useful background information and ideas for ancient art from around the world.

Subjects:: Visual Arts
Keywords:: Arts History
Resource Type:: Others

e-book

Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique

'Institutional critique’ is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system. Since then it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore this legacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways that go well beyond the field of art. Interrogating the shifting relations between ‘institutions’ and ‘critique’, the contributors to this volume analyze the past and present of institutional critique and propose lines of future development. Engaging with the work of philosophers and political theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and others, these essays reflect on the mutual enrichments between critical art practices and social movements and elaborate the conditions for politicized critical practice in the twenty-first century.

Subjects:: Visual Arts
Keywords:: Institutional Critique (Art movement)
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Art of Color

This seminar introduces, through studio projects, the basic principles regarding the use of color in the visual arts. Students explore a range of topics, including the historical uses of color in the arts, the interactions between colors, and the psychology of color.

Subjects:: Coloration and finishing and Visual Arts
Keywords:: Color in art Colors
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

A series of videos explaining how joints work and what can go wrong. It covers common muscular-skeletal diseases especially symptoms, causes and treatments on topics related to arthritis & gait. Study materials designed to go with the videos are found at https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/muscular-skeletal-diseases/arthritis/a/arthritis-and-rheumatoid-arthritis

Subjects:: Rehabilitation Sciences
Keywords:: Rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Artificial Intelligence

This course includes interactive demonstrations which are intended to stimulate interest and to help students gain intuition about how artificial intelligence methods work under a variety of circumstances.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potent buzzword and happening technology which has greatly impacted the lifestyle of every human being either directly or indirectly and is shaping the future of tomorrow. In fact, AI is fast becoming an intrinsic part of our daily life and is not confined to university research labs, even if remarkable progress has been made in this domain. The benefit of this phenomenon is widely recognized in diversified areas, ranging from medicine to security to consumer applications and business, and resulting in improvements in the quality of life of humankind. Every new disruptive technology has its own pros and cons and AI is no exception to this rule. Privacy, data protection, and the rights of individuals pose social and ethical challenges.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations

We will explore images that pertain to the emergence of Japan as a modern state. We will focus on images that depict Japan as it comes into contact with the rest of the world after its long and deep isolation during the feudal period. We will also cover city planning of Tokyo that took place after WWII, and such topics as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. A unique feature of this offering is that we will run it concurrently with the edX MOOC and two University of Tokyo MOOCs, Visualizing Postwar Tokyo and Four Faces of Contemporary Japanese Architecture, for much of the remainder of the class.

Subjects:: Area Studies, Visual Arts, and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: Arts Japan
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

Audacity

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free, open source software

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Keywords:: Digital audio editors Audacity (Computer file)
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Automatic Bell Siphon Explained

This is a demo of a bell siphon I built in collaboration with a couple of engineering professors. There are certain cases where it would be nice to be able to create a siphon without any intervention, a self-priming or automatic siphon: the next level of siphonry. It's built out of an acrylic sheet and a piece of clear pipe.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering
Keywords:: Siphons
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Automatic Flight Control Systems

This book focuses on a selection of key research areas, such as inertial navigation, control of unmanned aircraft and helicopters, trajectory control of an unmanned space re-entry vehicle, aeroservoelastic control, adaptive flight control, and fault tolerant flight control. This book consists of two major sections. The first section focuses on a literature review and some recent theoretical developments in flight control systems. The second section discusses some concepts of adaptive and fault-tolerant flight control systems. Each technique discussed in this book is illustrated by a relevant example.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Flight control Automatic pilot (Airplanes)
Resource Type:: e-book

e-book

Aviation and Its Management: Global Challenges and Opportunities

This book explores issues including airline management and operations, airline business models, airport systems, flight operational procedures, aircraft maintenance, runway safety management systems, and air traffic management.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Airlines -- Management Aeronautics Commercial
Resource Type:: e-book

Others

BIS Statistics

BIS statistics, compiled in cooperation with central banks and other national authorities, are designed to inform analysis of financial stability, international monetary spillovers and global liquidity.

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: International finance -- Statistics Banks banking International -- Statistical methods
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

BUS202: Principles of Finance

Principles of Finance will focus on what these managers, investors, and government agencies do with this information. It is an introductory course to various fields of finance and is comparable in content to courses that other institutions label as "corporate finance" or "financial management". Finance is a broad term; you will find that both managers that compile the financial reports we discussed in financial accounting and stockbrokers working on Wall Street will claim that they work in finance. So what exactly is finance? Finance is the science of fund management. It is distinct from accounting in that, whereas accounting aims at organizing and compiling past information, finance is geared towards deciding what to do with that information. In this course, you will be exposed to a number of different sub-fields within finance. You will learn how to determine which projects have the best potential payoff, to manage investments, and even to value stocks. In the end, you will discover that all finance boils down to one concept: return. In essence, finance asks: "If I give you money today, how much money will I get back in the future?". Though the answer to this question will vary widely from case to case, by the time you finish this course, you will know how to find the answer. You will learn how to use financial concepts such as the time value of money, pro forma financial statements, financial ratio analysis, capital budgeting analysis, capital structure, and the cost of capital. This course will also provide an introduction to bonds and stocks. Upon completion of this course, you will understand financial statements, cash flow, time value of money, stocks and bonds, capital budgeting, ratio analysis, and long term financing, and apply these concepts and skills in business decisions.

Subjects:: Finance
Keywords:: Business enterprises -- Finance Finance Corporations -- Finance
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

BUS208: Principles of Management

Management is the organization and coordination of work to produce a desired result. A manager is a person who practices management by working with and through people in order to accomplish his or her organization's goals. When you think of the term manager, you may be imagining your supervisor as he or she hires and terminates employees and makes major decisions above your authority. However, although you may not view yourself in this way, you yourself may also be a manager. In fact, many of us practice management skills in the workplace every day. You may have a team of employees that you manage, or lead a project that requires management strategy, or demonstrate leadership qualities among your peers. These are all scenarios that require you to apply the principles of management. In this course, you will learn to recognize the characteristics of proper management by identifying what successful managers do and how they do it. Understanding how managers work is just as beneficial for the subordinate employee as it is for the manager. This course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of management as they are practiced today. This course will illustrate how management evolves as firms grow in size. It is based upon the idea that the essential purpose of a business is to produce products and services in order to meet the needs and wants of the marketplace. A manager marshals an organization's resources (its people, finances, facilities, and equipment) toward this fundamental goal. In this course, you will explore the tasks that today's managers perform and delve into the key knowledge areas that managers need to master in order to run successful and profitable businesses.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Management
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

BUS300: Operations Management

We are all familiar with the science of operations management in some way, since we all have scarce resources and have to allocate those resources properly. Think about the process of preparing a meal: you have to gather all the proper ingredients and prepare them for cooking. Certain ingredients go in at certain times. Occasionally, you fall behind or get too far ahead, jeopardizing the entire meal. And, of course, if you find that you do not have enough ingredients, even more problems arise. All of these elements of meal preparation – purchasing ingredients, prepping the ingredients by dicing them up, mixing ingredients together, boiling or baking the dish, serving, and cleaning – can be seen as parts of operations management. In the realm of business, operations management is more complicated than preparing a family meal. There may be hundreds or thousands of participants rather than just you and your brother or wife or grandfather cooking in the kitchen. Each participant has a specific role in the operations process; if any step of the process is disrupted, the whole process can stall or fall apart. Smart operations managers will have contingency plans in the event that stoppages occur. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of operations management as they apply to both production and service-based operations. Successful completion of this course will empower you to implement the concepts you have learned in your place of business. Even if you do not plan to work in operations, every department of every company has processes that must be completed; someone savvy with operations management will be able to improve just about any process.

Subjects:: Logistics
Keywords:: Production management
Resource Type:: Courseware

e-book

Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management

Food Service Management

Subjects:: Food and Beverage
Keywords:: Food service Food service management
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Basic Structural Design

This course provides students with a basic knowledge of structural analysis and design for buildings, bridges and other structures. The course emphasizes the historical development of structural form and the evolution of structural design knowledge, from Gothic cathedrals to long span suspension bridges. Students will investigate the behavior of structural systems and elements through design exercises, case studies, and load testing of models. Students will design structures using timber, masonry, steel, and concrete and will gain an appreciation of the importance of structural design today, with an emphasis on environmental impact of large scale construction.

Subjects:: Structural Engineering
Keywords:: Structural design Structural analysis (Engineering)
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Bed, Bank and Shoreline Protection

Design of shoreline protection along rivers, canals and the sea; load on bed and shoreline by currents, wind waves and ship motion; stability of elements under current and wave conditions; stability of shore protection elements; design methods, construction methods. Flow: recapitulation of basics from fluid mechanics (flow, turbulence), stability of individual grains (sand, but also rock) in different type of flow conditions (weirs, jets), scour and erosion. Porous Media: basic equation, pressures and velocities on the stability on the boundary layer; groundwater flow with impermeable and semi-impermeable structures; granular filters and geotextiles. Waves: recapitulation of the basics of waves, focus on wave forces on the land-water boundary, specific aspects of ship induced waves, stability of elements under wave action (loose rock, placed blocks, impermeable layers) Design: overview of the various types of protections, construction and maintenance; design requirements, deterministic and probabilistic design; case studies, examples Materials and environment: overview of materials to be used, teraction with the aquatic environment, role of the land-water boundary as part of the ecosystem; environmentally sound shoreline design.

Subjects:: Hydraulic Engineering
Keywords:: Shore protection Coast defenses
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Beginners Guide To Virtual Reality

With so many new users picking up virtual reality headsets for the 2019 holiday season, it's time for a 2020 beginners guide to virtual reality. Let's dive into PC Specs, recommended headsets, setup, comfort, locomotion, motion sickness, free games and a lot more.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Interactive and Digital Media
Keywords:: Virtual reality Human-computer interaction Computer simulation
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Best Practices in Online Teaching

This course provides practical strategies and pedagogical advice for instructors teaching in an online environment. The course includes advice about: preparing to teach in an online environment, managing the teaching of a course, and addressing larger issues surrounding online teaching (e.g. workload, intellectual property, etc.)

Keywords:: Web-based instruction Distance education Computer-assisted instruction
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

Big Data Strategies to Transform Your Business

While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization. This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position. Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to: - assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature, - identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and - strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes. During the course, your most pressing questions will be answered in our feedback videos with the lecturer. In the assignments of the course, you will choose a sector and a stakeholder. For this, you will develop your own strategy and business model. This will help you identify the appropriate organizational structure and potential contributions and positions for yourself.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Management
Keywords:: Business -- Data processing Big data
Resource Type:: Courseware

MOOC

Big Data for Understanding Urbanizing China

In the past few decades, China's cities have experienced a period of rapid development. Great changes have taken place in both urban space and urban life. With the booming of information and communications technology (ICT), ‘Big data’ such as mobile phone signaling, public transportation smart card records and ‘open data’ from commercial websites and government websites jointly promote the formation of the ‘new data environment’, thus providing a novel perspective for a better understanding of what changes have happened or are happening in China’s cities. This course combines both the new data generated for urban analysis and its research applications. The content ranges from big data acquisition, analysis, visualization and applications in the context of China’s urbanization and its city planning, to urban modeling methods and typical models, as well as the emerging trend and potential revolution of big data in urban planning. We have categorized the overall content of this online course into five sections, namely, overview, data, data processing, application, and perspective. The section of overview introduces cities in transition and describe the changing of urban space and urban life in China. The second section lists some commonly used open data and big data in the ‘new data environment’. Then, methods for data acquisition, cleaning and analysis are illustrated in data processing section. To better explain the data analysis method, the fourth part introduces several Chinese research cases to illustrate the application of these methods in urban research. Last but not least, the last section is the most future-oriented one, which is composed of some methodologies and proposals such as Data Augmented Design (DAD) and Big Model. This course, which shares experiences on big data analysis and its research application, will suit those concerning contemporary urbanizing China and its urban planning in the context of information and communication technologies.

Subjects:: Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
Keywords:: China Cities towns -- Data processing City planning Big data
Resource Type:: MOOC

Courseware

Bio Mechatronics

Biomechatronics is a contraction of biomechanics and mechatronics. In this course the function and coordination of the human motion apparatus is the central focus, and the design of assistive devices for the support of the function of the motion apparatus.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Medical instruments apparatus Mechatronics Biomedical engineering Robotics
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

BioSci 93: DNA to Organisms

Cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, and the biology of organ systems, Covers concepts of building blocks (nucleotides, amino acids, and cells) and of information flow (DNA to proteins, receptors to nuclei, the blood to distant organs, and DNA to offspring)

Subjects:: Biology
Keywords:: DNA Biochemistry Cytology Biology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

BioSci 94: Organisms to Ecosystems

Patterns of diversity, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Emphasis is on the Tree of Life and how its members are distributed and interact. Partial Course.

Subjects:: Biology
Keywords:: Biodiversity Ecology Evolution (Biology)
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

BioSci M121: Immunology with Hematology

Antibodies, antigens, antigen-antibody reactions, cells and tissues of lymphoreticular and hematopoietic systems, and individual and collective components of cell-mediated and humoral immune response,

Subjects:: Biology
Keywords:: Hematology Immunology
Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Biofuels and bioprospecting for beginners

Biofuels can provide energy without the reliance on environmentally harmful fossils fuels -- but scientists are still searching for a plentiful source. Craig A. Kohn demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant cells, might be the solution.

Subjects:: Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Chemical and Bioprocess Technology
Keywords:: Renewable energy sources Biomass conversion Cellulose -- Biodegradation Biomass energy
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

Biological Chemistry II

This course is an advanced treatment of biochemical mechanisms that underlie biological processes. Topics include macromolecular machines such as the ribosome, the proteasome, fatty acid synthases as a paradigm for polyketide synthases and non-ribosomal polypeptide synthases, and polymerases. Emphasis will be given to the experimental methods used to unravel how these processes fit into the cellular context as well as the coordinated regulation of these processes.

Subjects:: Biochemistry and Biology
Keywords:: Biochemistry
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology and Genomics

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe gel electrophoresis. Explain molecular and reproductive cloning Describe uses of biotechnology in medicine and agriculture.

Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biomedical Engineering Design

This course presents a design philosophy and a design approach, dedicated to rehabilitation technology. This field was selected because of human-machine interaction is inherent and vital. Illustrative examples will be discussed by their entire design proces.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Rehabilitation technology Biomedical engineering Medical instruments apparatus -- Design construction
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biomedical Signal and Image Processing

This course presents the fundamentals of digital signal processing with particular emphasis on problems in biomedical research and clinical medicine. It covers principles and algorithms for processing both deterministic and random signals. Topics include data acquisition, imaging, filtering, coding, feature extraction, and modeling. The focus of the course is a series of labs that provide practical experience in processing physiological data, with examples from cardiology, speech processing, and medical imaging. The labs are done in MATLAB® during weekly lab sessions that take place in an electronic classroom. Lectures cover signal processing topics relevant to the lab exercises, as well as background on the biological signals processed in the labs.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging
Keywords:: Biomedical engineering Signal processing Image processing
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

Biosensors for Food Safety

How can you tell if harmful bacteria are in your food or water that might make you sick? What you eat or drink can be contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites and toxins—pathogens that can be harmful or even fatal. Students learn which contaminants have the greatest health risks and how they enter the food supply. While food supply contaminants can be identified from cultures grown in labs, bioengineers are creating technologies to make the detection of contaminated food quicker, easier and more effective.

Resource Type:: Courseware

Video

Blender 3D - Low Poly Character Clothing

A tutorial on setting up clothing to low poly character.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Interactive and Digital Media
Keywords:: Three-dimensional display systems Computer graphics Blender (Computer file) Computer animation
Resource Type:: Video

e-book

Bloomsbury Open Access

Open access ebooks from Bloomsbury Collections

Keywords:: Social sciences Management Design Geography Business Linguistics Humanities Economics
Resource Type:: e-book

Others

BlueLink - University of Michigan Medical School

These pages serve U-M Foundational Anatomy, a component of the Scientific Trunk of the M1 curriculum. Foundational Anatomy provides medical students with the necessary background in anatomy for success in clerkships.

Course related:: RS2040 Functional Anatomy and RS5308 Functional Anatomy
Subjects:: Rehabilitation Sciences, Health Sciences, and Nursing
Keywords:: Human body Human anatomy
Resource Type:: Others

Video

Boil Water at Room Temperature! - Hydrostatics

Engineers that work with fluids need a solid understanding of how they behave, and there’s one branch of fluid mechanics that plays a role in areas all across our lives. Whether you’re designing a water tower for a city or you just want to understand how those upside-down pet bowls work, you’ve got to know how to relate the depth and pressure of a fluid: hydrostatics.

Keywords:: Hydrostatics Fluid mechanics
Resource Type:: Video

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