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Video

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)
Resource Type:: Video

Courseware

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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

Courseware

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

Video

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

Video

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
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:: Mechanical Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: MATLAB Engineering mathematics
Resource Type:: e-book

Video

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

Others

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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

Courseware

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

Others

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

Courseware

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
Keywords:: Database management SQL (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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:: Mobile Computing
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

e-book

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

e-book

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
Keywords:: Data encryption (Computer science) Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data protection
Resource Type:: e-book

Courseware

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

Courseware

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

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
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

Courseware

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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

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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
Resource Type:: Courseware

Others

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
Keywords:: Algorithms Information visualization
Resource Type:: Others

Courseware

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
Keywords:: Algorithms Data structures (Computer science)
Resource Type:: Courseware

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

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